From individual missions to tours aboard the ISS, video games have featured surprisingly often in the inky blackness of space ...

A camera captured the moment a meteor lights up the sky above an erupting volcano.

The $20 billion moon base plans to start construction in 2029. The sprawling complex planned to go near the Moon’s South Pole ...

Python-casacore is a set of Python bindings for casacore, a c++ library used in radio astronomy. Python-casacore replaces the old pyrap. The python-casacore ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall convene an ad hoc survey committee and supporting study panels to carry out a decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics. The ...

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Usually I don’t write much about deep, “holy grail” objects, but for the Boötes Void, I’ll make an exception. Specifically, I’m wondering what’s the smallest telescope needed to see the galaxies in ...

"We are just beginning to appreciate how bad the disruption can be for land-based and space-based telescopes, and as more and more satellite overflights occur, the problems will only intensify." When ...

The biggest buzz in ground-based astronomy these days is the soon to be completed Rubin Observatory and its forthcoming wide field Large Synoptic Sky Survey. From a lonely mountaintop in northern ...

Stargazing is the ideal all-season activity that can help renew your appreciation for the endlessly vast galaxy while getting you out into the great outdoors. But if you’re peering out of your foggy ...

In mid-September 1982, I arrived at our little stone building at AstroMedia Corp. in Milwaukee for my first day of work. I had no idea what adventures awaited. I was hired as the junior assistant ...