NASA have found something new moving in our Solar System. Even thought it's not water, still a phenomenon worth of time ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

The Moon passes 0.5° south of the magnitude 1.0 star Spica at 11 A.M. EDT. The pair hangs in the evening sky, located in the south two hours after sunset. They are now some 6.3° apart, with the ...

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, ...

One of the trickiest aspects of adopting a new guinea pig is coming up with the perfect name for your furry new friend. Like ...

Text and photos by Michael J. Meyer Anyone who has visited Ocracoke Island knows how special it is: from stunning sunsets to magnificent views of the Milky Way on a moonless night after a cold ...

The Galilean Moons are very different from one another. Io, looking like a spotty pizza, with cheese and tomato sauce bubbling and flowing around darker bits of olive and other toppings, was ...