Mars shines brightly this week as it reaches opposition, appearing golden-red in the sky near Jupiter. Look for it in the ...

Nobel Prizes honored research in biology and AI, including foundational work on artificial neural networks, which enable machine learning and other ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project captured this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion.

The familiar zodiac constellations are defined by Earth’s motion around the sun, but they don’t define your fate ...

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

To locate Betelgeuse the star, which glows a distinctive orange-red, find the Orion constellation then look to the left of the three stars in Orion’s belt. Two brighter stars appear to the ...

Bays Mountain Park recently announced the second part of a two-part program featuring short stories of different cultures and ...