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University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...
Spacecraft are not like the starships you see in movies. There is no endless supply of dilithium or hypermatter that lets you ...
Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...
Alexandria Echo Press reporter Lisa Johnson and Astro Bob talk about occultations in this episode of "Minnesota Night Skies." ...
Since 1792, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has offered long-range weather forecasts to help readers schedule their planting and ...
Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...
The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) is officially initiating the decommissioning process for the UH-owned ...
On September 18, 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft managed to circle the Moon. The achievement beat NASA’s iconic ...
Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...
The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...
How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.