In one of the most egregious science news goof-ups of the past half century, many mainstream media sources urged people...

Venus is the brightest “star” in the cosmos. No wonder civilizations through the ages worshiped it.

The wild concept of a crushed sun started in 1783 with the British natural philosopher John Mitchell. He proposed the...

It’s not just observing eclipses or a planet that creates delight. Celestial knowledge can be just as exciting. Especially when...

Crescent Moon meets Venus over the Alhambra in Seville, Spain. Our region will soon see the Moon meet Venus plus...

It’s the Full Moon this weekend — on Sunday, February 5. Ever since people first looked up, they gazed at...

In 2014, the journal Nature reported that there are more planets than stars in our galaxy. It was an easy...

Rainbow season has now ended. This magical phenom is rare in winter, since it requires a sky with separate clouds...

Get ready for your longest shadow of the year...

The cosmos didn’t just leak in here drop by drop from another dimension, as the once-popular Steady State theory suggested....

In our era of mind-twisting cosmic items like pulsars and black holes, when edge-of-the-universe galaxies are routinely detected by billion-dollar...

Nature’s greatest sky spectacles may be perfectly silent, but they provoke shouts and gasps. People cannot believe the soul-stirring glory...

A lunation is the term for the Moon passing through all of its phases, which takes 29 ½ days and was...

The first half of this year, a single planet caught everyone’s eye. Well, not everyone, just those who were up...

We breathe mostly nitrogen. It makes up about 80% of the air. It doesn’t hurt us and it doesn’t help...

Some planets are easy to find in the night sky, while only one is usually difficult. That’s because Venus, Jupiter...

I’m a liar. I can’t help it. One or two things I write each week is wrong to some degree....

July’s first-ever James Webb Telescope images two weeks ago showed sharper-than-ever scenes of extremely distant objects – some distorted into...

This collage prepared by combining NASA images, shows Saturn and six of its satellites. Along with a few of Jupiter's...

All cultures through time paid attention to the solar patterns because their food production depended on it. Next in line...