There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

"Even though it's the first time we've seen a galaxy like this, we think that there could be many more out there." ...

An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the "Diamond Ring" in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ...

Despite only two people running the show over the last four decades, the planetarium has welcomed thousands of visitors and ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

Columnist John Breunig fills a time capsule with moments from the opening of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center's new ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial life has been confined largely to faint radio signals and conjecture. Now, the ...

A criminal court jury on Friday convicted Joseph “Jupiter Joe” Martinez of second-degree murder in the killing of 13-year-old ...

The Friends of the Shiras Planetarium has launched an “adopt-a-star” program to meet its fundraising goal of $1,041,000. As ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...