One of the stalwart units of astronomy just got a makeover. The International Astronomical Union, the authority on astronomical constants, has voted unanimously to redefine the astronomical unit, the ...

Click anywhere on this site, and you’ll likely run into a measurement in terms of light-years, solar masses, astronomical units, or arcminutes. These units are unique to astronomy, and all can be ...

Appearances aside, the stars are not eternal and the planets do not move with clockwork precision. For these reasons, one astronomer is proposing that his colleagues ditch the astronomical unit, or AU ...

If you guessed the astronomical unit, you are correct. The au — the rough distance between the Earth and the Sun — was previously determined by a confusing calculation (“the radius of an unperturbed ...

The sun still shines as bright, but according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), its precise distance from us has just changed. At a recent meeting of the IAU in Beijing, China, members ...

The International Astronomical Union drops the mic. How far away from Earth is the sun? Not just, you know, very, very far, but in terms of an actual, measurable distance? When you're calculating, how ...

Paris - The world's top astronomical body has endorsed the definition of the "Astronomical Unit" (AU), a measurement used to calculate the distance between stars and planets. The AU - based on the ...

When it comes to dealing with the cosmos, we humans like to couch things in familiar terms. When examining exoplanets, we classify them based on their similarities to the planets in our own Solar ...

In a solar-system-shaking victory for lay language, scientists have voted to redefine one of the most foundational measurements in all of astronomy, the mean distance between the sun and the Earth.

Scientists still define astronomical time in years, with some recent refinements. By C. Claiborne Ray Q. Do scientists actually speak of the age of the universe in years, or do they use some ...