Pluto will reach its closest approach to Earth and align opposite the Sun on July 25, appearing slightly brighter (magnitude ...

Charles Messier was born in Badonviller, France, on June 26, 1730, the 10th child of court bailiff Nicolas and his wife Françoise. His childhood interest in astronomy was stoked by Comet ...

French astronomer Charles Messier was born on June 26, 1730. Messier published the Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters. A ...

Foreshadowing the great reflecting telescopes of the last century and a half, Lord Rosse managed in 1845 to erect a mighty ...

Published on June 23 first images of the new Vera Rubin Observatory, showing more than 10 million galaxies around the Virgo ...