Science

We live in one of the world’s safest places in terms of the personal dangers from climate change. Yet, as...

Mars is performing a wonderful, colorful conjunction, and it’s easy to spot. At 9:30 or 9:45, tonight or the next...

Many assume the universe’s underlying nature can be revealed by astronomy or its cousin cosmology. That’s a big change from...

All this year Earth's sister planet has heated up the evening sky like a UFO. You've surely seen that dazzling...

Last week’s news was exciting: A meteor plunged through the roof of a New Jersey home, was scientifically identified by...

When this long cloudy period finally ends, let’s point our eyes toward arguably the most amazing thing in the universe....

Either nature is perfect, or else dark, snakelike patterns slither menacingly through the universe’s appointment calendar, its pages redolent with...

In one of the most egregious science news goof-ups of the past half century, many mainstream media sources urged people...

Venus is the brightest “star” in the cosmos. No wonder civilizations through the ages worshiped it.

The wild concept of a crushed sun started in 1783 with the British natural philosopher John Mitchell. He proposed the...

It’s not just observing eclipses or a planet that creates delight. Celestial knowledge can be just as exciting. Especially when...

Crescent Moon meets Venus over the Alhambra in Seville, Spain. Our region will soon see the Moon meet Venus plus...

It’s the Full Moon this weekend — on Sunday, February 5. Ever since people first looked up, they gazed at...

In 2014, the journal Nature reported that there are more planets than stars in our galaxy. It was an easy...

Rainbow season has now ended. This magical phenom is rare in winter, since it requires a sky with separate clouds...

Get ready for your longest shadow of the year...

The cosmos didn’t just leak in here drop by drop from another dimension, as the once-popular Steady State theory suggested....

In our era of mind-twisting cosmic items like pulsars and black holes, when edge-of-the-universe galaxies are routinely detected by billion-dollar...

Nature’s greatest sky spectacles may be perfectly silent, but they provoke shouts and gasps. People cannot believe the soul-stirring glory...

A lunation is the term for the Moon passing through all of its phases, which takes 29 ½ days and was...