With the final supermoon of the year and the peak of one of the most famous meteor shower displays, this weekend will be ...
On November 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. It happened at 9:46 p.m. on ...
Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.
Dutifully showing up in the sky almost every night, Earth's reflective friend can certainly be witnessed with the unaided eye. However, if you're interested in more than just lunar phases, a telescope ...
Watch for the Taurid and Leonid meteor showers this weekend. Sky & Telescope reporter Kelly Beatty says we should also keep an eye out for Venus and Mercury in the night sky.
If you need to stare into an abyss, it might as well be beautiful.
Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...
Once calibrated on some known stars, the app can then read the encoder outputs from the telescope, and help guide the user to point the device at other stars in the night sky. The rig won’t ...