Discover how astronomers use stellar parallax to navigate spacecraft in deep space without relying on Earth-based beacons.

ESA's Gaia mission ends its tenure—creating the most comprehensive and precise 3D map of Milky Way Galaxy In March 2025, the ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, a group of European astronomers came together to form an association without precedent in the history of astronomy. Informally known as the Celestial Police (in ...

When asked who was the first to propose the heliocentric theory—that is, the one in which the Sun is the center of the ...

"This explosion gave off more energy in a few seconds than the sun will over its entire life." Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better ...

"This event quite literally looks like nothing anyone has ever seen before." Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to ...

ALL NEW THIS AFTERNOON. THE CAMERAS ARE ROLLING ON ANOTHER BIG TV SHOW FILMING HERE IN OUR AREA COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER LILY COLEMAN WAS THERE AS CREWS WERE ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely stripped supernova." In a paper published today in Nature, Steve Schulze of ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

The magic of Hollywood is alive and well in Pittsburgh's Dormont neighborhood as filming begins on a new Apple TV series. The production is currently called "Parallax." The multi-part series is based ...

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