UNK's Planetarium launches its “Astro Friday” series on Friday evening and guides guests through the wonders of the universe.

The Astronomy Topics section of the Seeing in the Dark website, based on a documentary by Timothy Ferris, provides essays on astronomy topics, including Saturn and its rings, Mars, the Orion ...

Largest-ever survey shows new regulations on unintended transmissions are needed, say researchers at Australia’s Curtin University ...

Research from Nature Portfolio High-impact studies published in Nature and Nature Astronomy have further solidified our understanding of these topics.

ESA's Herschel spacecraft will collect infrared radiation from some of the coldest and most distant objects in the Universe. But why are observations of infrared light so special?

The University of Nebraska at Kearney Planetarium is ready to launch another semester of stellar shows. Led by faculty from ...

Life in the universe – what scientists mean by ‘life,’ the search for life and what life forms might exist in the universe – will be the topic of a free, non-technical talk next Wednesday ...

After all, one of the fundamental tasks of astronomy is to fill in the history of the universe—from the Big Bang to the moment you are reading this paragraph. Astronomers might not be able to ...

Research from Nature Portfolio High-impact studies published in Nature and Nature Astronomy have further solidified our understanding of these topics. Notably, early release science findings from ...

Much of modern astronomy depends on spectroscopy, where we must be able to detect light at the specific wavelengths corresponding to various elements. Low-pressure sodium lamps emit light at only a ...