What can an eclipse tell us? As Americans gather in the path of the solar eclipse on April 8, let us consider why an earlier generation of stargazers traced the movement of a celestial body into the ...

In the chill, grey dawn, near Malta, Mont., some 250 people waited nervously. John Q. Stewart, Princeton astronomer, and General Electric’s James Stokley, old hands who had worked on three previous ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astute eclipse-followers might remember that the moon doesn't actually spiral through Earth's ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist is part of a team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to study how the changing patterns of shadows cast on the dusty disks orbiting young ...