There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Over the last few years, the term “Goldilocks Zone” has become widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

June offers a celestial spectacle, starting with the Milky Way's rise in dark skies. Venus shines brightly in the early ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

A later variation appeared in a book, titled The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins (1614-1672), an English ...

As summer unfurls its warm embrace across the Northern Hemisphere, the night sky prepares to put on a dazzling display. For ...

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...

When a space rock the size of a small building gets a little too close for comfort, scientists everywhere pay attention. In ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...