"The Sun is just one among a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, each with its own cosmic tale to tell." — Timothy Ferris, in the film Seeing ... even a small telescope, planetary ...

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

Most of the stars in this table can be seen from Earth's northern hemisphere with the naked eye. Exceptions, listed in italics, are those either too dim to see without binoculars or a telescope ...

Here's how mankind learned to see the stars. Read more ... While Galileo didn't invent the telescope, he is the person most inextricably tied to its use and development. The field of optics ...

The next great space telescope will study distant ... This is dubbed a “technology demonstration.” Seeing “exoplanets” (which ...

Today, space travel for the average person is no longer a matter of "if ... of the Year Is About to Peak — With Up to 120 Shooting Stars Per Hour See the First Meteor Shower of the Year ...