Photo: Cristian Vasile, Bucharest, Romania.

Supermoon: “The phenomenon, known as a perigee full moon, means the Moon appears up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than when it is furthest from the planet.”

A mysterious stone monolith jutting from the ground near Manchester, England probably served as a crude seasonal calendar for Stone Age farmers.

When I say/think “I want a new scope” the song “I want a new drug” keeps going through my head, strange.   I have been contemplating buying a new telescope for a couple years now, but always held off because of my wife, now ex…

A behind-the-scenes look at how one telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory, produces its superb space images.

Simply awe inspiring. Kudos to the ESO for making this public. From European Southern Observatory – The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 [...]

Astrophysicists have simulated the magnetism of newborn galaxies using carbon rods and lasers in a small laboratory setup.

This month, researchers are inaugurating the Event Horizon Telescope, a project that will try to take the first detailed pictures of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Kyoto was a failure, Copenhagen was a failure and so too is Durban – the agreement there is barely better than nothing at all and won’t do a damn thing to stop global climate change via AGW.You could tell that, without having to read the details, as soon as the oil companies got on board. [...]

Researchers say meteorites fell over Selwyn, Ont.

One of the year’s best meteor showers has to compete with a nearly full moon, but the show should still be pretty good no matter where you are.

Astronomers have captured the best-ever image of a greedy star sucking the gas away from its bloated, dying companion star.

Astronomers from France have made the first accurate measurements of the distant dwarf planet Eris, and found that it’s an almost exact doppelganger of the declassified ninth planet, Pluto.

New analysis of data collected over 100 years ago suggests that the human race may have narrowly escaped extinction.

Starting this weekend, the closest supernova found in at least 25 years will be visible from your backyard with just binoculars or a small telescope. Here’s how.

Using 14 years’ worth of Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers have animated the chaos inside the supersonic jets of newborn stars.

  Astronomy is fantastic when done correctly and edited to make it all bright and shiny.    From Bad Astronomy: “First of all, a supernova is an exploding star — one of the most violent events in the Universe. There are different kin…

4000 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens, astronomers have discovered a planet made of diamond.