We stick to Earth's surface without giving it a thought...

All four easily seen planets have reached peak or near-peak brilliance at once...

As we approach 2025, we may be surprised that the sky will offer patterns and spectacles very different from what...

Venus is now starting an extraordinary cycle...

After centuries of effort by brilliant theorists, we’re left with a confusing mélange of unsatisfactory non-answers...

Never in our lives has upstate New York had a year that displayed all three of the top celestial spectacles...

Life brings us good ones and bad ones...

Astronomers with sub-stantial audiences are routinely swamped with questions...

Don’t Miss this weekend’s Super Buck Moon! said the July headline, repeated in respected newspapers and websites...

The cosmos is made of 92 natural elements. But only a few truly affect us.

A day doesn’t pass without people posting colorful images of supposed sky phenomena...

If life is routine and old enough to have developed intelligence...

Only last Saturday, an asteroid barely missed hitting Earth...

Many TV, online and print media are headlining an expected “new star” that could pop off any time...

Average number of stars visible from Manhattan: 11. From Woodstock: 2,600...

Last Friday evening, May 10, our region (and indeed the entire U.S.) saw the finest display of the Northern Lights...

 Finding life beyond Earth is the tacit motive behind our current fascination with exoplanets.

How does this total solar eclipse compares with others.

The media have generally done a poor job of prepping folks for the great April 8 total solar eclipse.

A few weeks ago came the puzzling discovery...