Last week we read about Felix Baumgarten’s “skydive from space.” That’s what they called it. But the 24-mile altitude at

Until 1925, nobody knew that galaxies existed beyond our own Milky Way. With today’s telescopes, 200 billion can be detected,

How many objects are not made of anything smaller? In the entire universe, three alone are indivisible. Only this trio

About a year from now, Comet ISON may become the brightest comet that anyone alive has ever seen. It will

“The Night Sky” has been running continuously in these newspapers for almost four decades. During that time, the Harvest Moon

The wild concept of a crushed sun started in 1783 with the British natural philosopher John Mitchell. He proposed the

This week the Moon is essentially absent. Skies are as dark as can be. We can see lots of stars

Societal unfairness probably bugs us all. I don’t know if I’m more sensitive than most, but, being tall, it has

Next Friday, August 31, it’s the Blue Moon. That term was the result of a misunderstanding in a 1940s astronomy