Historian and city councillor, Kieran McCarthy, who watched today as demolition crews went to work on the former Sextant pub, which opened on Albert Quay on the city’s south docks in 1877 ...

Barlow Planetarium, 1478 Midway Road, Menasha, will host several events and shows on campus in honor of National Astronomy Day from noon to 9:30 p.m. May 3. The events will feature a new addition ...

Two groups in Kolkata related to astronomy have created what they claim to be the largest handmade telescope in the city — a 14.5-inch f/5 Dobsonian that is low-cost, powerful, and easy to handle.

His observatory included the giant Fakhri sextant, an instrument so precise that it rivalled European innovations. Beyond astronomy, Ulugh Beg's madrasah in Registan Square became a pioneering ...

The popular belief that European astronomy from the late Middle Ages and early Modern ... Credit: Igor Pinigin / Wikimedia Commons This was the base structure of the so-called Fakhri sextant, the ...

Few knew President Jimmy Carter, who had a fascination with astronomy, used to go to the ... he asked the captain if the crew had a sextant on board, a tool for measuring the angle between the ...

PORT HUENEME, Calif. – A man was transported with non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting in the 2500 block of Sextant Avenue Tuesday evening. On Dec. 31, around 10:48 p.m., a patrol ...

Now, Lowell Observatory is expanding again with addition of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center, a state-of-the-art science center with interactive exhibits, a stunning theater and an ...

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the early 1500s. The analysis contributes to challenging the ...

The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as category winners in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Ryan Imperio ...

As the sailors of antiquity had made the most of ancient astronomical findings, the U.S. Navy began studying radio astronomy to see ... some details of a radio sextant that can navigate ships ...