Astronomers and biologists have long believed that a lot of the chemistry necessary for life was imported to Earth aboard ...

Oct. 10-12: The comet will appear in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere shortly after sunset, very low in the western sky ...

Comet C/2023 A3, also known as Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, may become the next brilliant comet. The brightnesses of such objects, however, are notoriously difficult to predict. But if it continues ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the annular eclipse that will occur Oct. 2. Annular eclipses occur when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth line up, in that order. But in this case ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher describes the upcoming conjunction of two bright objects in the evening sky. On October 5th, you’ll see a great pairing of the crescent Moon and Venus very close ...

I’ll be along with a group of adventurous Astronomy magazine travelers in conjunction with our travel partner, Eclipse Traveler, led by Cengiz Aras. We will see annularity from one of the most ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

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Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after Begelman, Blandford & Rees (1980) The recently detected background hum cannot yet be separated into its components well enough to finally say for sure whether ...

The Sci-Tech announces a free public astronomy observing session on Friday, October 11 at 8:30 p.m. The observing night will ...

An algorithm that detects streaks of light in telescope images could help to counter a growing threat to astronomy.

Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you're ...