Astronomy

When the Vera C. Rubin Observatory comes online, perhaps at full bore in 2025, this powerful and unique survey telescope,

N Sergey Trudolyubov from Los Alamos, New Mexico NGC 3628 — sometimes called the Hamburger Galaxy — is perhaps best

This week, Dave’s breaking down another pair of deep-sky objects that are situated nicely in the evening sky right now:

Could Psyche be the core of the planetesimal body that struck Earth and resulted in the formation of the Moon?

Several compact clusters of stars that formed near the Big Bang could provide a key insight into a little-understood time

The total solar eclipse set to occur August 12, 2045, will dazzle everyone who views it. And with a maximum

Why do some planets have moons and some don’t? – Siddharth, age 6, Texas On Earth, you can look up

T Michael Telesco from New Canaan, Connecticut The Iris Nebula (LBN 487) is a reflection nebula 1,300 light-years away in

For more than a decade now, astronomers have been puzzling over the origins of so-called fast radio bursts (FRB), which

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which has been on Mars since February 2021, recently found a light-colored boulder on the surface of