On July 11, 1801, French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery, c/1801 N1. When he'd began his career in ...

Long before the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics became known as the academic disciplines called STEM, men were at the forefront of any knowledge in these fields. Such was ...

I'm a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist. When I look at the night sky, I don't just see stars. Instead, I see an ancient knowledge system that ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...