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In the early morning of September 8, 2025, a 'Blood Moon' illuminated the sky, sparking a nationwide observation craze. This astronomical phenomenon occurs when the moon enters the Earth's umbra, ...

James Kakalios is a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught ...

As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence depended on a celestial accident some 66 million years ago, when “an asteroid coincidentally ...

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before and after the Scientific Revolution.

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Astronomy buff Mike Lynch likes to tell people to “come out and make the stars your old friends, which is what they really ...

Amazon Books editors have once again emerged from the literary battlefield, crowning "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy the "Best Book of the Year So Far." Around the halfway point every year, ...

In the early morning of September 8, 2025, a 'Blood Moon' illuminated the sky, sparking a nationwide observation frenzy. This astronomical phenomenon occurs when the moon enters the Earth's umbra, ...