Bloomer: It is best to start with a little naked-eye astronomy: see if you can pick just something out at first, and build ...

Veteran skywatchers say looking at the night sky is fun, educational and even awe-inspiring. The celestial views won't be anywhere near as crisp and detailed as those captured by the Hubble Space ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." These days, high-tech cameras and sensors enable modern astronomers to do everything from hunting for ...

Planetarium show attendees select their seats before a show. The Royden G. Derrick Planetarium on BYU's campus provides weekly shows to students and the public, according to the website. (Ty Mullen) ...

It's a lot harder to reach for the stars—and everything else in space—when you have to spell out by hand their names and all the technical terms related to them. That's why the International ...

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform we talk about the use of petascale supercomputers for training deep learning algorithms. More specifically, how this happening in Astronomy ...

Even though Lake Metroparks Astronomy Day Open House took place less than a day after the best viewing in Ohio of the lunar eclipse, the free event still sparked stargazing interest among visitors to ...

I recently embarrassed myself by admitting that I know nothing about astronomy and can’t fathom my kids’ passion for it, even when we are standing under the night sky with a super-telescope. I’ve ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tens of thousands are expected to flock to southeastern Oklahoma and Arkansas on April 8 to see the moon fully eclipse the sun. A solar eclipse happens when the moon gets directly in ...