It’s been one year since Salem photographer Andrew Studer captured one of the iconic images from last year’s total solar eclipse. The picture of rock climber Tommy Smith standing atop Smith Rock State ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Around 1800, an English schoolmistress named Margaret Bryan wrote several well-regarded textbooks on astronomy and physics for young women. While Bryan corresponded with some of the ...

THIS book is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing mass of astronomical literature. It is, in the main, well arranged, clearly written, and adequately supplied with excellent illustrations and ...

David Eicher is one of the most widely recognized astronomy enthusiasts in the world. He has been with Astronomy magazine for more than 40 years, beginning as an assistant editor and working through ...

All sky view of the Milky Way taken by the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you’ll likely learn that they are “dead ...

A whole passel of stills from the summer movie “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” has been released, and this one caught my eye right away for obvious reasons. That’s right: there’s an astronomy ...

Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they are 'dead stars' that continuously cool down over time. Astronomers are challenging this theory after ...