Star trails are the visible imprint of Earth's rotation. As our planet spins around its axis, the stars appear to sweep ...

Since 1986 I have had an affiliation with the Hayden Planetarium in New York. My "official" title there is "Associate and Guest Lecturer." Indeed, through all of these years I given scores of ...

Perched atop the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Gemini North Observatory is one of the world's most powerful windows into ...

Many stars have planets orbiting them. Several bright stars near Earth have confirmed planets, some potentially large gas giants. Some of these planets orbit their stars at distances similar to ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

On this coming Thursday evening, after the Thanksgiving feast and the football games, take a walk under the stars, weather ...

Astrophotography often misrepresents the naked-eye appearance of celestial colors, as cameras capture saturated colors unattainable by human vision due to limitations in photoreceptor sensitivity. The ...

Were you Seen at the Sky Full of Stars Gala on April 12, 2025, in The Hangar at 743 in Latham? The event was a fundraiser for Ohana Foundation, an organization that assists families in upstate New ...