Astronomy

Why do some planets have moons and some don’t? – Siddharth, age 6, Texas On Earth, you can look up

T Michael Telesco from New Canaan, Connecticut The Iris Nebula (LBN 487) is a reflection nebula 1,300 light-years away in

For more than a decade now, astronomers have been puzzling over the origins of so-called fast radio bursts (FRB), which

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which has been on Mars since February 2021, recently found a light-colored boulder on the surface of

Friday, June 21June’s Full Moon occurs at 9:08 P.M. EDT, just over a day after the summer solstice marked the

In 2020 when astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) discovered ghostly circles of radio emissions in the

At the center of an average joe galaxy 300 million light-years away, something has just happened that has astronomers at

Professional and amateur astronomers alike love to share facts about our amazing universe: “The brightest star is…,” “A black hole