In August, the most beautiful scenery and impressive celestial events are to be enjoyed before dawn—along with much more comfortable temperatures for sky watching.

Scientists at the Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich have shown that the protective magnetic field already existed more than a billion years ago.

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As of 2025, the distances these spacecraft have travelled are staggering. Voyager 1, at 166,40 astronomical units (about 24,9 billion km from earth), is the most distant by a human made object ever.

Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

To nail the presentation, NASA brought von Braun, its most celebrated engineer, to do the talking. After all, they were ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...

Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the best ...

Your zodiac sign can say a lot about you, including what type of cheesecake you would be at The Cheesecake Factory. Find out ...

Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it ...

At UWM, the Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics is committed to two things: science research and public ...