For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

For most of human history, we had no proof that planets existed beyond our own solar system. That changed in the last few decades, when astronomers developed clever ways to detect distant worlds by ...

CHENGDU CITY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA, January 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The planetarium industry has witnessed ...

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

"Textbooks will need to be updated," study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science ...

Hank squares off against Crash Course Astronomy host Phil Plait in our special Valentine’s/Old Timey Medicine edition of ...

On October 11, 2025, graduate students from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) carried out hands-on ...

The Physics Help Center, located in Sharp Lab 101B, is a place where students in introductory physics and astronomy courses can come for assistance with homework, studying, lab reports and other ...

NASA’s Artemis II could be the first time human eyes set sight on the farside of the moon — and there are things human eyes can see that cameras can’t.

According to this early data, Jupiter’s equatorial radius was around 44,423 miles (71,492 kilometers), and its polar radius ...

Filippenko will discuss the discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up over time, a finding that led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. He will also discuss the Hubble tension, with ...