Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...

She can be found online and near the closest south-facing window in Los Angeles. I recently traveled to go stargazing and was amazed at how vivid the night sky was. This inspired me to find ways to ...

Standing tall against the North Georgia mountains, Uhuburg Castle looks like it was plucked straight from the pages of a European fairy tale. This gleaming white castle with its striking blue-tipped ...

June 25's new moon darkens the night sky for summer’s best stargazing — including the Summer Triangle and Milky Way.

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

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A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from, including world-class observatories and six Dark Sky parks.

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So when you look up at the sky, you are enjoying the view of real, likely alive stars nearby, an occasional planet, our own galaxy, and a few galaxies that are close enough to see without the aid ...

This was because mid-July sees the beginning of the dog days of summer, which take their name from the period when the Dog Star Sirius, brightest in the night sky, is visible above the horizon. Since ...