The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...

See the crescent moon shine with Mars at sunset on Sept. 24. The crescent moon shines close to Mars above the western horizon ...

Green stars supposed to be impossible for humans to spot due to the way our eyes receive the light coming from the sun - and ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...

Astronomers have recently made a breakthrough studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion ...

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle ...

Why do millions still read their horoscopes? New research suggest astrology fans are less intelligent, but the truth is more complex, and more human.

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is a new visitor from our outer solar system. It may be easier to see as it approaches Earth next week ...

For nearly two centuries, it was unclear that the bright spot in the constellation Virgo, which Charles Messier had described in 1781 as "87: Nebula ...

The stars you see tonight won’t be in the same place a million years from now, and some familiar constellations […] ...

This black hole spins rapidly, and its rotation powers a stream of charged particles that shoots out at nearly the speed of ...

On October 6, we had a full moon that was referred to as the Hunter’s Moon or the Blood Moon. The many stages of the moon have always fascinated me. Perhaps this is because I spent many nights sitting ...