In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out a bit later in the evening this time of year to see the Milky Way. Be sure to go out before the Moon comes up.

Rajya Sabha member Satnam Singh Sandhu is a part of the all-party delegation led by BJP MP Baijayant Panda that reached Kuwait on Sunday Kuwait firmly supports India’s stance against terrorism ...

Question: How does the Cincinnati Observatory qualify as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy?" Answer: The Cincinnati Observatory is known as ‘The Birthplace of American Astronomy’ because ...

Twentieth-century explorations answered many questions about our satellite and its place in the solar system. But they also raised many new and challenging questions that still remain unanswered.

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier generation of scientists were willing to acknowledge. By Joshua Sokol ...

"A coronagraph is an instrument used in astronomy to block or suppress the light coming from a very bright object, like a star, to reveal fainter objects surrounding it." This allows scientists to ...

An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust ...

Capitol insider and legislative rules expert Chris Michali explained that while committees won't start meeting to vote on bills for a couple of months, there is a lot to do in the meantime ...

This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become a staple of astronomy ... "Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of ...

In a Fox News interview, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said humans could be flown to Mars in ‘20 to 30 years.’ Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press SpaceX is shifting personnel and resources to its ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent analyses discount the evidence. An artist’s concept of the exoplanet K2 ...

chair of the radio astronomy division of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, told Space.com. They complete an orbit around each other in just 3.6 ...