Eligible students will receive two to four free tickets to a spring training baseball game of their choice this season.

Advocates for limits on indiscriminate outdoor lighting that are increasingly obscuring night skies worldwide are recognizing ...

A Northern Arizona University Ph.D. student working at Lowell Observatory helped lead a study using meteor showers to predict ...

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news. That's ...

NEW YORK (AP) — As a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in common with many Americans since the election. He's tuned out ...

Today: At 1:20 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky with respect to the background stars. This point is called the Winter Solstice. During the day that the Sun ...

Since Chiron possesses characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet, it makes it rich for studying many processes that could assist in understanding them, she says. "What is unique about Chiron ...

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 began life in a small New York non-profit theatre a decade ago, staged as a wild immersive party by Rachel Chavkin. Then it soared to Broadway ...

This “dark comet” has had astronomers scratching their heads ever since. Flash forward to today, and more of these mysterious objects have been discovered, with another ten announced just last ...

The Geminids originate from a rocky asteroid called 3200 Phaethon with a comet-like orbit and were first observed in 1862. Dr Minjae Kim, a research fellow in the physics department at the ...