Stargazing

Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier teaches science through storytelling.

For thousands of years, comets have fascinated us, filled us with dread, and, in some ways, made us who we are.

What you see overhead is a combination of where you are, how our vision evolved, and that flimsy layer of atmosphere that keeps us all alive.

For more than half a century, the International Astronomical Youth Camp has attracted aspiring astronomers from around the world.

Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—the Sun is throwing a tantrum right on schedule.

From the “World’s Largest Chicken Dance” to a week-long star party, don’t miss these funky events in the Cornhusker State.

For this NASA ambassador, religion and stargazing go hand in hand.

Dark-sky parks, stargazing cruises, and other ways to tour the heavens without leaving our home planet.

Self-taught astronomer, Joe Guzman has been educating Chicago residents about space for decades.

Ptolemy's compendium, later known as the Almagest, dominated Western astronomy for 15 centuries. It was also wrong, and it took the fall of an empire to fix it.

Many of us see a face or a rabbit in the Moon—examples of pareidolia that, when conditions are right, also include the letters X and V.

Unlike Sun-focused Stonehenge and other megalithic monuments, Tomnaverie and similar stone circles hint at the Moon's importance to ancient people.