astronomy and astrophysics

A Trip to Totality: Experiencing the 2017 Solar Eclipse

By Jeff Goldberg @jeffagoldberg For a while, I was conflicted about the effort to see the solar eclipse either in…

With the help of high school students, scientists at The American Museum of Natural History are creating an online catalog…

There is a lot of trash orbiting earth. More than 170 million pieces and counting, in fact. The pieces of…

Mike Massimino, former space shuttle astronaut and current professor at Columbia University, shares his path with us in his book, Spaceman.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 49 crew member Kate Rubins, who became the first person to sequence DNA in space, returned to…

The right telescope accessories can help you photograph the sky, the moon, the stars, and more. Learn how to choose the right ones for you.

MIT researchers found three potentially habitable planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star. Three planets, just 40 light years away from…

The Hubble Space Telescope has been conducting a deep-sky survey called “Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North,” or GOODS North.

By Dan Spengler Ed Belbruno is a self-admitted motormouth. Painting the Way to the Moon, a new documentary about the…

After traveling for about half the age of the universe, a flood of powerful gamma rays from a distant galaxy…