The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory is celebrating 60 years of welcoming visitors to the moutnaintop collection of telescopes 55 ...

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On October 2, an annular solar eclipse will wash over one of Earth’s most exotic locales. Astronomy Editor David Eicher will ...

Earth will have a temporary “mini moon” for two months. The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus.

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Oct. 12 is Astronomy Day, and Pebble Hill Plantation is offering a special program on the sun to celebrate. Randy Rhea, an astronomer, engineer, and author, will present “There’s More to the Sun than ...

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will reach perihelion — and if it survives its close call with the sun, we may be in for a ...

All the planets parade from sunset to midnight. Look to the west southwest as twilight fades to spot brilliant Venus. Our sister world slinks along the horizon gaining little altitude ...

Tech pioneer Charles Simonyi talks about the Simonyi Survey Telescope — and his own trips to space — in the GeekWire Podcast.

The comet — which was projected to reach its closest point to the sun as early as noon Friday — was still in formation late ...

Wakefield and District Astronomy Society is launching another taster course for people. Chairman Paul Campbell said: “Are you ...