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Until this survey, astronomers could never be sure they were seeing most of the active galactic nuclei.

The finding provides insight into star formation when the universe was about one-sixth its present age.

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The organizers of the International Year of Astronomy are using the Web to get you to step away from the computer and actually see the sky.

To celebrate the Year of Astronomy, the University of Toronto will run 3,000 ads aboard TTC busses and subways to get people talking about the stars. Updated 5th January 2009, 5:21pm

Honey, I blew up the galaxy. Well, not exactly. It appears that the Milky Way Galaxy has always been larger than we originally thought. We're also moving faster and unfortunately more...

Our friend, Paul Sutherland, of Skymania News, has posted a most interesting article about English explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer, Thomas Harriot, who was born in Oxford about...