New Delhi: In a major development, Shrinivas R Kulkarni, a US professor of Indian descent, will be awarded the prestigious Shaw Award for his contributions in the field of astronomy. Kulkarni’s ...

PARIS — Russia’s long-delayed Spektr-R astronomy satellite was successfully launched July 18 aboard a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia’s Roskosmos ...

RUSSIA has played an important part in the development of astronomy since the foundation of the Pulkova Observatory by Czar Nicholas in 1839. Under the direction of F. G. W. Struve, this observatory ...

Shrinivas R Kulkarni, an Indian-origin professor of astronomy from the US will be bestowed the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies — and increasingly by commercial companies — are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade ...