Use the Big Dipper to locate Polaris, the North Star. Orion's belt helps find other bright stars like Sirius. Follow the Big Dipper's handle to find Arcturus and Spica. The Summer Triangle is formed ...

Karl Schwarzschild's 1916 solution to Einstein's field equations of general relativity predicted the existence of black holes, characterized by an event horizon where even light cannot escape. Cygnus ...

Apollo mission lunar samples provided crucial data, initially intended to test existing Moon formation theories (capture, co-formation, fission), but ultimately leading to the development of the Giant ...

Claude-Louis Mathieu, born in Macon, France, in 1783, demonstrated an early aptitude for mathematics, overcoming familial and financial obstacles to graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1805. His ...

The universe began with an unimaginably hot, dense state. Inflation rapidly expanded the universe's size. Before inflation, the universe existed in a period called the GUT era where forces were ...

The speed of light is a fundamental constant, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second. It's the same for all observers and hasn't changed measurably over billions of years. Nothing can travel ...

A rotating space hotel, Voyager Station, is planned to open by 2027. Artificial gravity will be created using a spinning wheel design. The hotel will offer various amenities, including a restaurant ...

I wake up to a chime from my smartphone. Bleary-eyed, I check it — and jolt awake upon seeing an automated email from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. The subject line reads: “AT 2018xxx ...

Black holes are regions of spacetime with gravity so strong that nothing escapes. Black holes grow by consuming nearby matter, slowing their eventual evaporation. Hawking radiation causes black holes ...

Astronomy magazine reaches the largest audience of astronomy enthusiasts in the world. This award winning magazine provides stories on the science of astronomy, observing, imaging, cosmology and ...

Asterisms are informal stellar groupings, formally distinguished from the 88 International Astronomical Union (IAU) constellations in 1928 with Eugène Joseph Delporte's publication, which defined ...

Dave Eicher, Editor Emeritus of *Astronomy* magazine, encourages observers to locate Saturn, the solar system's sixth planet, in the evening sky. During this observational period, Saturn's typically ...