Astronomer Gemma Lavender thought this telescope was great for beginners and astrophotographers, and now it's $500 this Black ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

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Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

Jupiter and Sirius rise after dark this month, creating a striking duo that are obvious candidates for a modern-day ...

December for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Geminids meteor shower, as Greg Redern highlights in December’s ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A look at how states from Oklahoma to Illinois to California are reviving America's most iconic highway for its 100th ...

On Hawaii's Hāmākua Coast, Jen Murphy finds not only verdant canyons striped with waterfalls but also a burgeoning food scene ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages on ...