A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
If you learned your solar system facts in school anytime before the last couple of years, theres a good chance whatever number you memorized for Saturn's moons is now seriously out of date. This isn't one of those slow, gradual updates either, Saturn's moon...
Theres a reason almost every astronomy class, every science museum, and every kid's first telescope experience starts in the exact same place, our own...
A supermoon is a full moon that lines up with the Moon's closest approach to Earth, making it look a little bigger and noticeably brighter than an ordinary full moon. At its best, a supermoon can appear up to 14% larger and about 30%...
Somewhere out there sits a stellar remnant so magnetically powerful it could, in theory, wipe every credit card on Earth from over halfway to the Moon. That's a magnetar, an extreme type of neutron star wielding the strongest magnetic fields ever measured anywhere in...