Coming up: An interesting year in the heavens. Here’s a 2022 preview.

It’s vivid but old news: Ancient cultures knew that tides were mainly controlled by the Moon. Yet, nowadays, many are...

It’s easy to get tempted by the Web headlines. They make it sound amazing: “Are you ready for the big...

It won’t last long. But now and for the next couple of weeks, a gorgeous row of bright planets, like...

The branch of science called cosmology — which is not about hairdressing and permanent waves, but the study of the...

It’s been a long wait, but we finally have an eclipse worth setting the alarm for. But it’s oh-so-odd, just...

The next Full Moon is Saturday night, December 18. It’ll be the highest-up Full Moon of the year, and will...

The universe’s bodies are mostly spheres, and, obviously, every location on each of those balls has a spot precisely opposite...

Colonizing other planets means living with increased radiation. Starting in 1969, when the first of 24 astronauts ventured beyond both...

Two weeks ago, a woman lying in bed in her home near Vancouver heard a loud noise, felt pieces of...

It’s the most common question astronomers encounter: Do you believe there’s life out there?

Violent thunderstorms with their accompanying destructiveness and phenomena like roll clouds and shelf clouds are rare during our cold half...

The reduced sunlight strength sufficiently cools the air above us that it’s increasingly common to stand below clouds made not...

The start of fall arrives with the autumnal equinox next Wednesday, September 22 at 3:21 p.m. That’s when the midday...

This coming Tuesday, the 14th, Neptune reaches its closest approach to us for the year. It’s an enormous blue ball...

Researchers recently found the farthest-ever galaxy, a Hubble smudge at a distance of around 13 billion light years.

Light determines what we see and know. But what is it?

Coastal civilizations forever noticed that the ocean’s rhythmic rise and fall mostly followed the Moon’s position. But how could this...

August is when the sky transitions from its least number of faint stars (in the spring) to its greatest number,...

One planet never disappoints. Through any telescope with more than 30x, Saturn elicits gasps. Oddly enough, photos of the ringed...