Science

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...

A scientist unearths the fossil of a new marine fauna species from some 450 million years ago...

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...

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...

As the new year began, local headlines spread word of a new, offbeat contest. The State Department of Environmental Conservation...

An A-bomb blast like this one, but over Hiroshima, gave survivors one mile from ground zero the same radiation you’d...

The spectacular April 8 total solar eclipse just three months away...

Few objects are darker than the Moon.

In hush-hush astrophysics circles there are seldom discussed lists of impenetrable cosmic mysteries. These are the tantalizing enigmas that will...

In 2017, this page offered good portable telescopes to anyone who’d explain why they want one. Both found grateful new...