astrophysics

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs i...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Meteorologists are predicting that something “unpredictable” could be visible in places it’s not usually seen this weekend. Said pl...

ECLIPSE: It’s today, folks, the total solar eclipse, the first one in the continental U.S. in seven years. The last one was Aug. 21, 2017. Before that...

COUDERSPORT — Two free programs, a Woodcock Walk and the Through Our Telescopes: Moon Watch will be held this Saturday, May 6 at Cherry Springs State ...

Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will bo...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dust off your eclipse glasses: It’s only a year until a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America. On April 8, 2024, the moon wi...

LOOK UP. Earlier in March, on a cold, clear night in Bradford the planets of Venus and Saturn shone very bright in the night sky and if you thought th...

More than half the solar system’s planets will align Monday in a rarely seen spectacle, arcing across a corner of the night sky. Mercury, Venus, Mars,...

Better catch the moon’s disappearing act Tuesday — there won’t be another like it for three years. The Associated Press reports the total lunar eclips...

Those spectacular pictures of galaxies forming at a time very near the origin of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope came at a pretty pri...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and l...

Was the (potentially) amazing James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana on Christmas of all days to put it more in the public eye — or le...

RING OF FIRE’ SOLAR ECLIPSE : The new moon will sweep in front of the sun to create this year’s first solar eclipse today. The moon in its elliptical ...

What could be more natural than going to Mars? So far, civilization’s essential narrative has been exploration, discovery and migration from parts of ...

ROVER LANDING: NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover safely landed on Mars on Thursday after a 203 day journey of traveling 293 million miles through space. ...

BIG BANG FACTS: NASA recently shared a refresher on the Big Bang — the event that gave rise to our universe. For those who haven’t thought about anyth...

NEW SPACE TELESCOPE: NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)...

STRAWBERRY MOON: June’s Moon, known in legend and folklore as the “Strawberry Moon,” will turn 100% full Friday, June 5, at 3:12 p.m. EDT. At this tim...

FLOWER MOON: May’s Moon, known in legend and folklore as the “Flower Moon,” will turn 100% astronomically full at 6:45 a.m. EDT on Thursday. In mediev...

Smethport native Bart Barton, who previously worked on the Apollo 11 launch with his father, Bill Barton, captured quite a shot to add to his collecti...