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

Each type has spin-offs. Refractor telescopes gather light with the objective lens, where light enters the scope. The wider ...

Our minds are like telescopic lenses, and the more we focus on something, the larger it becomes. As children, we begin with a ...

It is just 7 pm but feels like midnight. That’s how dark it is at Nakshatra Mahasabha, an astronomy and stargazing camping ...

Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that are perfectly aligned, allowing their combined gravitational pull to act as a ...

Ken Burns is dramatically changing direction with his monumental two-part PBS “Leonardo da Vinci” series: It is the first ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

Anadolu / Anadolu via Getty Images 4.The contents of Abraham Lincoln's pockets on the night he was assassinated, April 14, ...

On November 12 2014, Philae – the lander of the spacecraft Rosetta of the European Space Agency (ESA) – landed on a comet for ...

Most of us see 5 or 6 stars in the Pleiades, a.k.a. the Seven Sisters, star cluster. But there are a whole lot more. The ...

NASA James Webb Space Telescope ...