From a long-term historical perspective, the decision late last week by Britain, France and Germany to launch the so-called “trigger” process for restoring strict economic sanctions on Iran because of ...

By institutionalising muhūrta s within mathematics, the UGC is effectively telling students that astrological determinism is ...

Due to their concerns about the quality of local education, three prominent Doylestown businessmen, Henry H. Hough, Eugene Smith, and Benjamin Smith, established a private school for both male and ...

If anyone thinks that the names given to the various places on the Moon—from craters to mountains, including ranges, seas and ...

Satellites in low Earth orbit currently disrupt radioastronomical observations hundreds of times a day. An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises ...

Anne Arundel County Public School students outpaced the state average in English language arts proficiency and exceeded in science, but showed mixed results in math skills, according to Maryland ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum plaguing the standard model of cosmology. New observations of a pair of ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

Centuries before computers came, Indian scholars were writing poetry that doubled as mathematics. On palm-leaf manuscripts, ...

Mumbai: The International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) has suspended Israel as a recognised national team and barred its participation in future olympiads owing to the country’s ...

At 7 A.M. EDT, the Moon is observed 5° north of Venus, positioned between Venus and Pollux (magnitude 1.2). Pollux, despite being cataloged as Beta Geminorum, exhibits a slightly higher brightness ...