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Chris Lintott tries to observe everything from asteroids zipping through the Solar System, to distant galaxies. The way the cosmos reveals its secrets is a story, he thinks, deserves an audience. Luck ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ($12,200), as a "private international buyer" triumphed over intense competition at a U.K. auction. The Castle of Knowledge by ...

Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was Interstellar's science advisor. The movie explores scientific concepts like wormholes and time dilation. Interstellar depicts a space mission searching ...

In mid-September 1982, I arrived at our little stone building at AstroMedia Corp. in Milwaukee for my first day of work. I had no idea what adventures awaited. I was hired as the junior assistant ...

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If you’re one of the millions of Americans who looked at the eclipse this week and wondered what other cool things you might be able see in the sky, this guide is for you. Whether you want to spy on ...