The giant planet hasn’t been this bright in a decade, and it reaches opposition December 7. Now is the time to get out and ...

The Vaonis Vespera Pro is now only $2499 this Black Friday making it the first time I have ever seen it discounted, with ...

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 ...

The Celestron 130AZ telescope is now discounted by $115 and is a brilliant, budget-friendly telescope, ideal for beginners.

Scientists have discovered Earth-sized dark UV spots at Jupiter's poles, likely caused by magnetically driven vortices ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

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

It’s time to introduce our hero, (Joseph) Norman Lockyer (1836-1920). Lockyer was a respected though minor civil servant, working as a secretary for the War Office in Whitehall. He had a comfortable ...

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

There are many popular assumptions that are commonly promoted. One is that all religions can be synchronized or made to agree ...

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

At the special screening of the 3D movie 3D Space Safari , middle schoolers from SBOA School, Kochi, leap up as a meteorite ...