Science

  At Memorial Day parties last weekend, I saw many faces I’d known from a half-century ago when I first...

Getting away...

Coming up this Saturday night...

Genre bending science…

For countless centuries, the Full Moon had great importance...

Berman is a legend…

Many of us seek out thrills...

Look to the sky…

Day and night are equal...

Next Thursday night, March 13, we’ll see a total eclipse of the Moon...

Let’s look at the actual facts...

We stick to Earth's surface without giving it a thought...

All four easily seen planets have reached peak or near-peak brilliance at once...

As we approach 2025, we may be surprised that the sky will offer patterns and spectacles very different from what...

Venus is now starting an extraordinary cycle...

Space and beyond…

After centuries of effort by brilliant theorists, we’re left with a confusing mélange of unsatisfactory non-answers...

Never in our lives has upstate New York had a year that displayed all three of the top celestial spectacles...

Life brings us good ones and bad ones...

Astronomers with sub-stantial audiences are routinely swamped with questions...