A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

Jodie Foster tearing up a dirt road, yelling stellar coordinates into a walkie-talkie à la the 1997 sci-fi film Contact. Control rooms alive with a cacophony of “enhance that signal”. Real-time ...

The Perseids will be most active on Wednesday into Thursday morning, on the moonless night after a total solar eclipse.

The much-anticipated annual event peaks on the night of August 12 into the next morning. This year, the moon won’t crash the ...

Amina Helmi's passion for the Milky Way is clear as soon as one steps into her small office at the University of Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. Alongside family photos and piled-up ...

What has eluded detection so far have been exosatellites: moons orbiting those remote planets. Our solar system is home to a whopping 891 moons, but the rest of the known cosmos? Nothing. Until now.

NEW YORK, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading unified orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow®, today announced that Matt Simontacchi has joined ...

Ex-Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot recently spoke to The Times about the Coldplay kiss cam scandal that derailed her personal and professional life over the summer. Cabot resigned from her job after ...

Out of a sky full of stars, Astronomer wants Gwyneth Paltrow on its team. One week after her ex Chris Martin joked about Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot—then the respective CEO and human resource head of ...

The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR, Kristin Cabot. They were swaying in mid-hug when the ...

The commercial featuring Gwyneth Paltrow for Astronomer is smart, sharp and undeniably viral. It's a masterclass in redirecting attention - using humor, celebrity and astute timing to reframe a ...

It only took 350 years, but the U.K. has appointed a woman to the position of astronomer royal. Michele Dougherty will take on the responsibility advising King Charles III on all things astronomical.