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....
On a crisp autumn or winter night, away from the worst of the city glow, look up and you'll eventually notice a tiny, tight little knot of stars that almost looks like a smudge or a miniature dipper. People spot it, squint, and often...
Some of the biggest discoveries in space exploration don't come from a carefully planned experiment, they come from pure, dumb luck. That's exactly what...
Point the Hubble Space Telescope at what looks like a completely empty patch of sky, hold it steady for eleven days straight, and you'll find it isn't empty at all, it's packed with thousands of galaxies. Scaling that single tiny snapshot up to cover...
Neptune sits so far out in the solar system that it took mathematics, not a telescope, to actually find it. Astronomers calculated exactly where it had to be based on strange wobbles in Uranus's orbit, then pointed a telescope at that precise spot and...