Astronomy is linked with seasonal and social knowledge

Astronomical knowledge appears within social responsibilities, stories, ceremonies and relationships with land.

The study reports traditions capable of orienting travel to within a few degrees through celestial cues.

The overview rejects portrayals of Indigenous Australians as passive observers without systematic knowledge.

Researchers surveyed villages across central India to document sky stories and observational traditions among Gond communities.

The study shows that familiar star patterns are not universal and can be grouped according to distinct cultural histories.

Gond astronomy continues to change, and researchers must avoid treating communities as frozen remnants of the past.

The spacecraft made humanity’s first close flyby of the dwarf planet.

Cameras and instruments collected data on Pluto during the encounter; transmission to Earth continued afterward.

The mission studied Pluto and its large moon Charon during the same close encounter.

The flyby transformed Pluto from a distant point into a world with visible geological features.