Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. December 5: Mercury improving This evening brings ...
The seventh Starmus Festival took place May 12–17 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was a smashing success all the way around. Starmus stands for stars and music, and this celebration has grown into the ...
Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...
This will be my last column for The Dispatch. I will be moving to a new job after more than 30 years as a university professor. Today’s topic is what interests me the most in the field of cosmology.
Both of Friday’s Astronomical Unit lectures are related to celestial phenomena not discernible to human senses. David ...
This exploration examines the Eternal Universe theory, which suggests that the cosmos has no true beginning or end, ...
Sir Francis Graham-Smith in 2007: he carried out much important work on pulsars - Science Photo Library Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of ...
This story comes from our special January 2021 issue, “The Beginning and the End of the Universe.” Click here to purchase the full issue. From a dark site on a clear winter night, the sky in the ...