The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see ...

Sol 100mm Dedicated Solar Telescope DayStar FiltersWarrensburg, Missouri DayStar's Sol 100 Hydrogen-alpha telescope is a 4-inch instrument that allows safe viewing of normally invisible solar features ...

The Shiras Planetarium will welcome Dr. Joel Weisberg to Marquette this April as part of the American Astronomical Society’s ...

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

Why doesn't Astronomy magazine recognize Messier 110? Keith LankfordHarvest, Alabama Amateur astronomers dubbed this object ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

A University of Kansas researcher in physics and astronomy can now claim to be a star in her own right — at least within the ...

Hayley Beltz was the type of kid who grew up fascinated by space and “looking up at the night sky,” but a career that used that passion outside of being an astronaut seemed light years away. Beltz ...

Those intriguing eats and sips are not on the menu at a certain observatory-adjacent snack spot — sandwiches, salads, and yummy earthbound sweets are the theme — but we can pretend we're floating in ...

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

On the first night out with my brand-new Celestron NexStar 8SE back in July 2015, I knew little about the relative sizes of astronomical objects. I was bowled over by my first view of Saturn — an ...

One day, while I was looking at the credits for an attractive image on AstroBin, I noticed the camera listed was “Player One.” I wondered who that company was. As time went by, I saw similar credits ...