The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for ...

Ramadan 2026 is expected to begin on 19 February, and bring shorter fasting hours and cooler conditions for many Muslim ...

The month of February gets under way with the full “Snow” Moon visiting the Beehive star cluster.

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

"We are on Day 1. A lot more needs to be done." ...

The International Astronomy Center (IAC) has announced that Tuesday, (January 20, 2026), would mark the start of the month of ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained schools for scribes trained in reading, writing, mathematics, law, and ...

Immerse yourself in the exciting exploration of Dark Matter with the “Phantom of the Universe” planetarium show at Lycoming College on Friday, Feb. 6.