Earth and Mars are constantly moving, but don’t stay a constant distance apart. Plus, spacecraft don’t travel in a straight line to their destination.
A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...
This faraway, ancient ball of stars may have been captured from another galaxy that passed too close to the Milky Way.
The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You can use this sparkling star to point your way to the open cluster M47 in ...
A few days ago, longtime Astronomy magazine contributor Chris Schur sent me the image you see here. It shows the famous Double Cluster in Perseus, also known as NGC 869 and NGC 884. Most images of ...
Commissioned with observing high-energy events, particularly solar flares, the High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (later renamed the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager; RHESSI) ...