Local astronomer William “Bill” Spizzirri, a volunteer with the Fort Bend Astronomy Club’s Astronomy on Wheels program, will explain the difference between meteors and meteorites, where they come from ...

Two astronauts — one American, one Russian — will launch on a flight that is set to bring the Boeing Starliner astronauts ...

A new study reveals that the dwarf planet Ceres is much icier than previously thought, possibly harboring a subsurface ocean.

Kitt Peak National Observatory is celebrating 60 years of welcoming visitors to the moutnaintop collection of telescopes 55 ...

All the planets parade from sunset to midnight. Look to the west southwest as twilight fades to spot brilliant Venus. Our sister world slinks along the horizon gaining little altitude ...

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

For the first time in 80,000 years, the comet C/2023 A3 - also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS - is making its grand return to our ...

Engaging articles, breathtaking images and expert knowledge ...

Tech pioneer Charles Simonyi talks about the Simonyi Survey Telescope — and his own trips to space — in the GeekWire Podcast.

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration across 14 institutions, has covered a ...

Wakefield and District Astronomy Society is launching another taster course for people. Chairman Paul Campbell said: “Are you ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of this ...