Space

If you’re sweating from our current heat wave, be glad you don’t live on planet KELT-9, orbiting a blue A-type star 620 light ...

Wiltshire, England doesn’t have the monopoly on solar events with summer solstice at Stonehenge. Philadelphia is a suitable site to ...

A cosmic debris ring has been observed around a star where a planet has already been directly observed. Plus, the observed lunar in ...

Sunset now comes at 8:15pm, giving us 14 hours and 36 minutes of daylight here at Philadelphia’s latitude. We have about four ...

With the return of the summer constellations rising around midnight, the Milky Way rises up from ringing the horizon and will arc slowly ...

The Blanco reflector telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile has detected a ‘distant dwarf’ planet observers are calling “De ...

A star has been discovered that orbits a black hole once every 28 minutes. Not impressed? This star is 2.5 times farther away from the bl ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget cuts NASA’s funding by 1%. What’s lost? Some Earth Observing missions, th ...

Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...

The twin 10m Keck telescopes at Mauna Kea in Hawaii have identified 100 more exoplanet candidates. On ...

We celebrate two giant birth anniversaries this week: Wednesday is the 453rd anniversary of Galileo and Sunday is the 544th anniversary o ...

February 6th is the 46th anniversary of the first space sport. On this day in 1971, golf enthusiast-turned-astronaut Alan Shepard hit a g ...

His mother wasn’t sure what to do, and the Rubin family was weighing her options around the dinner table. It was 1975, and astrophysici ...

Join us as we recap the top astronomy-related stories of 2016. 1. A potentially habitable planet was discovered orbiting the close ...

December 25 marks Christmas Day and December mini-moon day! The moon was at apogee, or the greatest distance from Earth (for the month). ...