Pluto’s surface is observed at close range

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.

Celestial observations interact with agriculture, ritual, ancestry and community identity.

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.

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.

LIGO scientists reported a signal from merging black holes recorded on 14 September 2015.

The announced result opened observational astronomy using ripples in spacetime.

The collaboration explained how two detectors had measured the same astrophysical signal.