A group of researchers has just published a surprising study in The Astronomical Journal and, in their conclusions, they argue that there are massive planets that, without the need ...

When asked who was the first to propose the heliocentric theory—that is, the one in which the Sun is the center of the ...

In 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first image of Earth from the Moon. This photograph showed Earth as a fragile ...

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Bonny Carmicino, who lives in Cold Spring, has had an interesting career path but primarily is a clothing pattern maker. We spoke near the end of her term as president of the Association of Sewing and ...

In 15th-century Europe, the Church held a monopoly on truth. Orb places its initial focus on Rafal, a child prodigy in Poland studying theology with a passion for reason at all costs. He’s drawn into ...

To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe is gravitationally attracting all the other matter in the universe; ...