It was sitting-on-the-floor-room only in a classroom at the South Dakota School of Mines. The topic? How the same atomic process that happens inside stars, including our own sun, might ...

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued.

Spotting one of the five naked-eye planets isn’t too difficult (see Seeing Stars, September 19) but here is a challenge for ...

As you can see on the star chart, Comet Lemmon starts the month below the Plough, and then moves through Boötes into Serpens, ...

While there is a smaller subculture of astrology that does embrace the 13th sign, the very structure of Western Tropical, and ...

The Draconids and the Orionids are the two major meteor showers happening in October, though one may offer a more spectacular ...

October is packed with stargazing events — one bright supermoon two meteor showers, and Oct. 4 is International Observe the Moon Night.

A comet from another star system is swinging by Mars as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor.

A very surprising celestial map drawn on elk skin continues to intrigue researchers nearly a century after its rediscovery.

While many of the original cherry trees have been replaced over time, the surrounding Susquehannock State Forest still features beautiful stands of black cherry, maple, and other hardwoods that create ...

• On the evening of Oct. 9, the moon will pass through the Pleiades star cluster. Use binoculars to see some of its stars around the moon, and use a telescope to see stars pop out along the dark edge ...