A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

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Did you know that the beautiful Milky Way might soon disappear from our night sky? Light pollution, caused by all the bright lights in cities, is making the stars harder to see. Scientists say that in ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

Before the newly refurbished and improved planetarium is opened to the public in February, select guests were invited to experience some of what the new facility can offer, and were blown away by what ...

This Friday night will be clear, so I highly encourage you to go out and look to the east as the moon rises. It will have ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to start with.

Peruvian Indigenous spirituality joins Spanish Catholicism, the latter being cemented onto what was already there. A ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

It was easier, he said, with the moon and Venus on his side ... All you could see were the tiny bobbing headlamps of hikers, ...

However, the email was tinged with sadness since it reports on the closing of a special nursery: “A little less than a year ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...