Look up in April 2026 for Venus and Jupiter, the Lyrids peak, zodiacal light after the new moon, and a short window to catch ...

Description: In 1965, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory saw their Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 (LCS-1) launched into Earth orbit. It was an empty aluminum sphere and couldn't do any science of its own. But the ...

Artemis II launched Tuesday carrying a crew of three Americans and one Canadian further into space than any humans have ...

Stargazers can enjoy unique views of Mercury, a planet parade, and the Zodiacal Light.

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

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 ...

The April 'Pink Moon' and Lyrid meteor shower are coming to Kentucky. Here's when to see them and what to know.

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

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

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

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 ...