The Enchanting Phenomenon of Ball Lightning Imagine a glowing orb of light dancing across the sky, flickering with an unpredictably vivid glow. This isn’t a scene from a science fiction movie; it's a ...

A remarkable exhibition of historic astronomical drawings, including sketches believed to have influenced Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, has opened at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium.

The winners of the second annual International Space Art and Poetry Contest were chosen out of 2,700 entries from 35 ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

Chile's dark, starry skies, crucial for astronomy, face threats from urban expansion. Astronomers, including Angel Otarola, ...

George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer was the principal designer of a telescope that went to the moon as part of NASA’s Apollo 16 mission in 1972 in an effort to examine the earth’s ...