Some say summer ends in a few days. Others say we have a few more weeks. A look at those...

Project Apollo had a million things that could have gone wrong.

As for the “first-born son has a higher chance for success” notion, the Apollo astronauts would seem to support such...

In our 21st century, more than half the world’s population lives in an urban environment, with natural nocturnal darkness a...

If you’ve seen the Great Pyramids, Machu Picchu, the Grand Canyon, the Taj Mahal, the Atacama Desert, the Himalayas and...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, along with a few other companies, are planning to put 12,000 new satellites into low Earth...

Polaris can be identified most easily right now, at nightfall in spring, because the Big Dipper hovers at its highest...

If you ask anyone the first words spoken from the Moon, they’ll invariably mention the “One small step” speech. Actually,...

Arcturus’ light was focused through a telescope onto a photocell, which tripped the lights to start the Chicago World’s Fair...

In truth, that wasn’t a photo of a black hole. Nor was it the first ironclad proof that they exist....

A third of the population is at least partially convinced of an ongoing, health-threatening government spraying program that does not...

If the dark matter is an entirely new form of material, unlike the baryonic matter that comprises our bodies and...

On Friday, April 13, 2029 (yes, Friday the 13th!), the asteroid Apophis will just barely miss us.

Our cloudiest month is November, but we are currently in the midst of a happy transformation.

The media will call it a Supermoon, astronomers will call it lunar perigee, and Hudson River tides will be stronger...

Vassar‘s Debra Elmegreen, Professor of Astronomy (Walter Garschagen | Vassar College) We caught a lucky break with the clouds, and...

We all know that brains and muscles operate electrically. But almost no one seems aware that our body’s electricity has...

Why does each cell in our body have 90 trillion atoms, roughly the same as the number of stars in...

In 2019, our region gets one fabulous total lunar eclipse – in just a few weeks, on January 20.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: Look in the direction of sunrise at 6:45 a.m. Face into the brightening dawn.