KEARNEY — A comet streaking across the night sky. The northern lights illuminating a Nebraska landscape. A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy.

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.

you should consider picking up one of the best headlamps for astronomy and stargazing. They can also be a worthwhile investment if you want to walk the dog late in the day or even run after sunset ...

The Crew-8 astronauts launched in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule strapped to the company’s Falcon 9 rocket on March 4, autonomously docking to the ISS the following day. Like previous Commercial ...

The images below show the day-by-day phases of the Moon in November ... from Earth and are shown at 0h Universal Time. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly The moonrise and moonset schedule this week ...

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One day when the different kinds of gamma-ray bursts are better understood, it is likely that the amateur astronomy community will have played a significant part in exposing the secrets of these ...

Let this simple GNOME shell extension change your wallpaper every day to the NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day. It will also show a notification containing the title and the explanation of the image ...