astronomy

GEMINID: The famous winter meteor shower will sling bright shooting stars across the sky this week, peaking Thursday night into Friday morning, accord...

My mind works in mysterious ways, as is evident to those who read my columns. I found something in the Farmers Almanac for 2019 that caught my eye, an...

SKY : Clear skies at this time of year usually bring along low temperatures, but for folks who are willing to brave it, the night sky on Sunday should...

Stars, planets and other celestial objects illuminate the night sky at Cherry Springs State Park on a chilly Saturday night.

COUDERSPORT — Cherry Springs State Park will be holding another free night sky tour for the public on Sept. 29. From 7:30 to 9 p.m. Sept. 29, park sta...

As the sun went down, families came out in full-force to take part in the sixth annual “Reading Under the Lights” at Parkway Field on Friday night. Br...

COUDERSPORT— A free Night Sky tour is being offered at Cherry Springs State Park at 4639 Cherry Springs Road, Coudersport on Saturday. The park is 12 ...

Labor Day is widely considered the last hurrah of summertime, and the area’s state parks are offering lots of activities for families to enjoy over th...

ELEVATORS: A reader just found out why his elevator-operator relative would get so annoyed when the elevators in the former Emery Hotel would break do...

While Greg Snowman’s name might prompt good-natured suggestions that he glances skyward for flurries, instead the astronomy expert studies the skies r...

Looking to catch views of the Milky Way, planets and hard-to-see astronomical objects? Just take the highway to the stars–– literally. On Thursday, Go...

BLACK & WHITE: Readers probably noticed that Tuesday’s front page was less colorful than usual. (That’s a reference to the ink, not a comment on our c...

To mark The Week of the Young Child, Rainbow Corner Preschool held several activities to celebrate students in its early learning program. The theme f...

DARK SKIES: This week is International Dark Sky Week, and the International Dark-Sky Association is celebrating. According to the association, “Intern...

SPACE: NASA is preparing a mission to search for habitable planets elsewhere in space. On April 16, the agency will launch its Transiting Exoplanet Su...

The nation, and world, had been in the throes of the flu pandemic of 1918, as well as World War I when Al Billitier made his entry into the world on M...

A Potter County resident has undertaken efforts to designate a section of Route 44 in Potter County in honor of stargazing activities at one of the co...

EXPLORER I: “Late in the evening of Jan. 31, 1958, the United States took its first step into space with the launch of the Explorer 1 satellite from C...

HURT100: Former Era sports writer Pete Sirianni contacted us recently to let us know that two former McKean County residents recently performed well a...

Many people are actively worried about global warming. And it frustrates them that skeptics and “deniers” refuse to acknowledge the “science” of such ...