Sometimes people accidentally make good points while believing they are making the opposite point. Right before the eclipse, liberal activist David Pepper asked an easy-to-answer question whose answer ...

The “Cosmic Perspective Fundamentals” is the briefest introduction to astronomy in the Bennett series. It is carefully crafted to engage students and motivate them to learn about astronomy and ...

Only 12 light years from Earth, Tau Ceti is the closest single star similar to the Sun and an all-time favorite in sci-fi stories. Habitable worlds orbiting Tau Ceti were destinations of fictional ...

Excitement is building for the total eclipse of April 8, 2024. Viewing such solar eclipses is great fun; however, looking at the Sun must be done cautiously. Many use special solar filters to reduce ...

A new survey has revealed many Brits are clueless about the solar system with four in ten unable to identify the biggest ...

Star Walk, a simple astronomy app that harnesses the GPS in your phone and tells you exactly what’s going on over your head in the sky, gave me lots of ideas for arranging the bone spurs my players ...

COMMENCING with a chapter on our place in the universe, the author proceeds in the established sequence with chapters on the earth's motions, the sun, Mercury, Venus, &c., completing the discussion of ...

Higher-than-normal tides -- tied to a full moon -- have added to Hurricane Sandy's coastal flooding threat. As you might expect the explanation is a matter of simple astronomy, not any kind of lunacy ...