Astronomers report the discovery of two new highly scattered pulsars as part of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) ...

Portraits of bad-boy astronomer Tycho Brahe show off his custom gold nose. But historians have also pointed out a scandalous ...

On this day in 1810, readers learned that Michael Walsh’s Evening School would open while Nancy Searle would move her school from Boardman Street to Pleasant Street. She would instruct ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Discover why stars twinkle at night! Learn how Earth’s atmosphere bends starlight, why planets shine steadily and explore ...

Did stars and galaxies give rise to black holes, or was it the other way around? New research may challenge ideas about how ...

The Chimney Rock Interpretive Association (CRIA) is honored to host a special lecture with renowned archaeoastronomer and physicist Dr. J. McKim “Kim” Malville titled “Exploring ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have ...

I graduated from high school in 1960, well into the “Beat Russia” post-Sputnik era, and left for college thinking I’d major in chemistry. That fantasy died when I met my ...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted to continue tonight.

• On the evening of Oct. 9, the moon will pass through the Pleiades star cluster. Use binoculars to see some of its stars around the moon, and use a telescope to see stars pop out along the dark edge ...