First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...
While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as...
Over the past few weeks we’ve given readers eyeful upon...
If you get a cloth dripping wet in the absence of gravity...
The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be...
The sun is spurting all manner of plasma this year and next...
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Astronomy

The sun is full of surprises: In what is perhaps a display of the feistiness that is destined to increase over the next couple of years until peaking in 2013–14 , it recently launc...
Gale Courey Toensing
August 18, 2012

Each spring since time immemorial, Lakota people have visited their sacred places in South Dakota’s Black Hills—P

Word on the street: If you see no other meteor shower this year, make it this one...
Ever mention something that happens “once in a blue moon”? Well brace yourselves—that moon will be here at the end of the month. Tonight, August 1, is the month’s first full moon...
The major solar storms and resulting auroras of mid-July are but a taste of things to come as the sun reaches its maximum level of outbursts in its cycle...
In terms of discoveries, astronomers could well call this the year of the galaxy, so many celestial surprises are they stumbling across as they peer at the farthest reaches of the ...
The long-predicted latest break in Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has finally come to pass, with an ice chunk the size of two Manhattan Islands shearing off into the ocean on Monday...
Although Pluto was declassified as a planet back in 2006 , the icy orb may be having the last laugh: It’s got more moons than most bona fides do...
Manhattanhenge, the twice-yearly solar shining down the cross streets of New York City, is back tonight ...
Venus and Jupiter have moved their celestial trysts to mornings, Venus having transited the sun on June 5–6 . It is now the Morning Star...

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