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The December solstice marks the start of winter across the Northern Hemisphere, but meteorologists commonly consider a different date to mark the beginning of the new season. On the day of the ...

Does someone on your holiday gift list have a passion for checking out the stars? WTOP space expert Greg Redfern has some ...

The Hensen family hosts an annual Thanksgiving meal for students in the Stony Brook University International and Friends ...

Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...

On November 18th, 2022, shortly before midnight, the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona and other observatories worldwide ...

Chilean science journalist Nadia Politis has explored the ends of the earth and beyond. From reporting in the bitter cold of ...

While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, University of California, Berkeley, ...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

The Celestron NexStar 8SE is the perfect telescope for anyone serious about stargazing. It's a great investment at full price ...

Crucially this water would be separated, like oil and water, from a carbon-rich layer below that divides the ocean from each ...

While NASA’s NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...