It’s a familiar view to those who watched Matt Damon’s character Mark Watney fight for survival in "The Martian," yet … More

According to physicist, Roger Penrose, What’s in our head is orders of magnitude more complex than anything one sees in … More

“For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.” – Murray … More

We have a reasonably bright comet that is visible this Christmas week. Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) exhibits two tails in … More

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The vast changes our planet has undergone since formation add a real sense of humility to the exoplanet hunt. It’s … More

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a typical barred spiral galaxy, a flattened disk of about a hundred billion … More

It’s that time of year again. The Winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society is nearly upon us. To make … More