DESPITE the recent spell of terrible weather, GCSE Astronomy students at Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton have finally been able to use ...

DESPITE the recent spell of terrible weather, GCSE Astronomy students at Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton have finally been able to use the school observatory and take some images of the moon and ...

Since humanity's earliest days, people have looked up at the stars, using science, art, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and any other tool at their disposal to better understand the complicated and ...

SpaceX has put off a mission to Mars planned for this year, shifting its focus to a long-promised lunar voyage for NASA. The rocket company told investors it will prioritize going to the moon first ...

Nearly 80 percent of North Americans can’t see the Milky Way in the night sky due to light pollution, according to “The New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness,” a study conducted in 2016.

This report and interactive tool benchmarks physics and astronomy programs nationwide by faculty size and the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded. This allows departments and administrators to see ...

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is preparing to capture the most detailed, decade-long movie of the night sky ever attempted. With the world’s largest digital camera, the ...

The North Star appears fixed in the night sky, but that is an illusion. Polaris is moving, changing, and evolving like any other star. Its brightness has fluctuated in measurable ways. Earth’s slow ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien worlds: their orbits follow a consistent rhythm. If one planet in a system ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...

The cosmos has taken up its fair share of space in the news this year. Here are some of the major stories from beyond Earth that happened during 2025. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed its first ...