Astronomy is a science and a hobby that loves long words, acronyms, and abbreviations. At times, listening to someone talking about an event happening in the sky or an object faraway in space can feel ...

Modern astronomy and physics stretch back centuries, so naturally, they've accumulated a lot of interesting names for objects, ideas and phenomena. And let's face it: Some are downright strange. From ...

DALLAS — A Total Solar Eclipse happens during the early afternoon of Monday, April 8. All of Texas sees at least a partial eclipse, weather permitting, but some North Texas locations will be in the ...

The International Astronomical Union officially standardized 88 constellations in 1922, prior to which astronomers used various, now largely obsolete, constellations. John Hill proposed 15 new ...

Humans have been looking to the sky to make sense of the world around us for thousands of years. Ancient cave paintings seem to show humans began using the position of the stars to keep track of time ...

After detection, there's a small window of time within which follow-up, light-based astronomy observations can be made. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...