On December and January evenings, Orion rises early and dominates the southern sky by mid-evening, making him the easiest ...

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Global Aerospace Corporation announced today that a decision has been made by the NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) to fund the second year of the Phase II contract to develop a ...

Do you know your zodiac sign? Would you know how to find it in the night sky? To help learn about the astronomy and mythology behind the constellations of the zodiac, UW-Milwaukee's Manfred Olson ...

“The recent Nature paper by Borlaff, Marcum and Howell raises important concerns about our ability to continue gathering ...

The rapid proliferation of satellite mega-constellations is raising global concerns, highlighted by a call from 120 top astronomy researchers urging the FCC to investigate the potential impacts of ...

Looking up at the night sky has always felt like opening a storybook written in stars. Every culture across history has connected those glowing dots into pictures and then wrapped them in stories that ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

A new report from the National Research Council, LAUNCHING SCIENCE: SCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED BY NASA’S CONSTELLATION PROGRAM, reviews science missions that would be uniquely suited to the new ...

Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it Telescope project managers are rewriting scheduling programs to avoid the new ...

Do you know your zodiac sign? Would you know how to find it in the night sky? To help learn about the astronomy and mythology behind the constellations of the zodiac, UW-Milwaukee's Manfred Olson ...