Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about ...

Peter Kuchar, a Ponte Vedra Beach resident and the father of 2012 Players Champion Matt Kuchar, passed away at the age of 73 on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack on a trip to St. Bart's to ...

Note that Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Mercury reaches superior conjunction with the Sun on the 9th and isn’t visible early in the month. The small ...

Robert Miller, who provided the evening and morning twilight charts, did graduate work in planetarium science, and later astronomy and computer science at Michigan State University, and remains active ...

Based on what scientists thought they knew about fast radio bursts, referred to in astronomy as FRBs, this type of galaxy should not contain the kind of star long thought to produce such bursts.

Comedian Peter Kay looked unrecognisable as he was spotted on a rare public outing. The beloved stand-up - who recently made his grand return to TV in the Christmas special of Wallace and Gromit ...

Peter Kay made a rare appearance ahead of his next batch of tour dates (Picture: Click News and Media) Peter Kay attempted to go incognito as he was seen heading back to his tour bus ahead of the ...

I almost concluded it was an actual NEO and stopped looking, but I asked around on the Minor Planet Mailing List just to erase my final doubts" G told Astronomy. It was then that Jonathan McDowell ...

Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging. Think of how hard it is to estimate the distance of someone pointing a flashlight at you on a dark night. Galaxies come in a very wide range of ...

In its final moments, Season 2 of “The Night Agent” elegantly set up a Season 3. Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), the off-books government agent of the show’s title has received a new mission.

While that federal ban has been in place for decades, John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a member of AAS’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE ...