On Saturday, August 17, 2024, the Maunakea Astronomy Outreach Committee hosted the Tanabata Block Party on North A`ohoku ...

The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

That’s a telescope’s main job: to allow you to see objects far too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Galileo said it best: ...

Australia’s first female astronaut has revealed what she truly thinks about aliens and the possibility of life on other ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

Astronomers have spotted for the first time a trio of supermassive galaxies that were already fully formed in the first ...

The legendary magician and escapologist was famous for hanging upside down while wearing a straitjacket (as seen below) and ...