Science

The universe is growing all the time… clusters of galaxies exist with vast space in between them. What floats around in the huge ex ...

NASA spacecraft that were launched decades ago are finally exiting our solar system. What will we discover as they cross the fuzzy bounda ...

We recently had a near brush with disaster as an asteroid passed 40,000 miles from earth. Well, it wasn’t really that close to disa ...

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. No we’re not talking about rock stars, but stars in the night sky. Some star ...

Conditions in space are so very different than that of earth. When you think of hot, you think red, right? Not so in space. A hot star is ...

Another piece of the cosmic puzzle is discovered. A new planet less than twice the size of earth orbiting a sun like star. A rocky planet ...

When you look at the night sky, do you know how many stars or other points of light can be seen by the naked eye? How did ancient observe ...

“Back-to-basics” month continues on SkyTalk as Derrick Pitts and WHYY’s Dave Heller examine how we see the uni ...

Can you identify the 12 constellations of the zodiac? How about the names of all the planets in our galaxy? No, well that’s okay, W ...

WHYY-FM’s Dave Heller and astronomer Derrick Pitts celebrate Skytalk’s 18th season on the air by doing what they do best̷ ...

Can’t wait another second? Neither can WHYY-FM’s Dave Heller and astronomer Derrick Pitts. A Leap Second was added at 7 p.m. ...