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.

On Saturday and Sunday nights, Dec. 15 and 16, Bob expects Comet Wirtanen to achieve naked-eye visibility – the first...

Comet Wirtanen will soon pay Earth its closest-ever visit. It should be large and blobby-looking, appearing as a fuzzy glob...

The Martian surface air is 30 times thinner than the air atop Mount Everest. And if that weren’t bad enough,...

By day the antisolar point is marked by the shadow of your head. At night it’s the most happening place...

Here are my top six sky apparitions that belong on everyone’s bucket list, most of which appear in your own...

One word is so consistently mispronounced that I’ve been repeatedly corrected when I say it the right way, which is...

You go there when you want privacy. Lagrangian points are very cool. So why haven’t we ever explored them in...

How can such an intangible thing as the fact of awareness, such as experiencing the smell of buttered corn, arise...

Friday-Saturday, Sept. 14-15: There’s probably a supermassive black hole in the core of every galaxy. Ours has the weight of...