Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi has proposed a century-long mission to send a “paperclip-sized nanocraft” to a black hole using a powerful laser beam. The purpose of this bold mission would be to test the ...

Early this morning, the raised, flat lava plain of Wargentin is stands out near the large crater Schickard in the lunar ...

8. Speaking of sunlight, it’s composed of approximately 40 percent light, 50 percent heat, and 10 percent ultraviolet ...

Wired reports that Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are set to align in an arc in the night skies above ...

The days have been slowly shortening since the Summer Solstice in June, but the change becomes more apparent here in southern ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

Fifty-eight people have been infected—and two have died—in a New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease—a severe type of pneumonia caused by a bacterium commonly associated with air-conditioning ...

Neil Alden Armstrong was born on Aug. 5, 1930, in Ohio. A naval pilot from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong flew 78 missions in Korea.

Asteroid Vesta stands in line with two of Libra’s stars this evening, making the trio an easy-to-spot target in binoculars or any telescope.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the morning of August 13 to see the bright planets Venus and Jupiter close together low in the eastern sky. This ...

A brightening Moon limits deep-sky options, but this cluster never fails to disappoint: M13, the great globular in Hercules the Strongman.

David Fabricius, a Lutheran pastor with interests in cartography and science, was born in 1564 in modern-day Germany. On ...