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Have you heard that the Milky Way is bigger than we thought? Fifty percent bigger, according to new measurements
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If it is clear out tonight, grab your binoculars or a telescope and look up at the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn
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How far we have come from 1609, when Galileo Galilei first aimed his telescope towards the little twinkly dots in the sky and saw stars and planets
How do you prove that a black hole exists? It is so dense, not even light can escape its grasp
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That’s right. These three undergraduates from Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a planet, and not just any old planet
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The famed astronomer wasn’t always so well known
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This week’s Picture of the Week is the Earth as seen from the Moon, circa 1966.Thinking ahead, NASA sent five missions up to photograph the moon
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Why Is A Negative Number Called Absolute Zero?
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