Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.

The first publication by Galileo Galilei has set a new auction record for the celebrated astronomer, selling for $1.5 million at Christie's.

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Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of ...

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Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan, along ...

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World's largest solar telescope turns on powerful new camera, revealing breathtaking image of a continent-size sunspot The observatory is set to undertake a 10-year time lapse of the universe.