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Expert advice for new stargazers: How to begin your amateur astronomy journey

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

The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking—Here’s How to Watch This Fireball-Filled Event

When many meteors appear to streak from the same point in the night sky, that point is known as the radiant. This year the ...
Astronomy

How to see the International Space Station

Lots of things change in the night sky. Stars rise and set during the night; constellations come and go as the seasons pass; planets waltz along the ecliptic, visiting the zodiacal constellations on ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Leaving the Solar System: How To See It Before It’s Gone

Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth ...

A space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR's search for extraterrestrial life

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists ...
Space.com

How scientists are using spinning dead stars to find ripples in the fabric of spacetime

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and leftover waves from the Big Bang. Ripples in spacetime from both the merger ...
The Hour

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabriela Radulescu, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) As humans began to ...