"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." These days, high-tech cameras and sensors enable modern astronomers to do everything from hunting for ...

Mountain Recreation is launching a new Astronomy Club that will take place on Thursdays from Jan. 15 through Feb. 19 at 6 p.m ...

It's a lot harder to reach for the stars—and everything else in space—when you have to spell out by hand their names and all the technical terms related to them. That's why the International ...

The night sky has always fascinated us. The stars, our moon, and the nearby planets have always been inexplicably captivating. Even now, there's simply no substitute for the experience of looking up ...

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform we talk about the use of petascale supercomputers for training deep learning algorithms. More specifically, how this happening in Astronomy ...

I recently embarrassed myself by admitting that I know nothing about astronomy and can’t fathom my kids’ passion for it, even when we are standing under the night sky with a super-telescope. I’ve ...

The Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) established the Chiricahua Astronomy Complex (CAC), a 16-acre dark-sky observing site in southeastern Arizona, to combat light pollution affecting their ...

A machine learning method called “deep learning,” which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze ...

Learning Encounters’ Diagonal Kit for Galileoscope or SkyViewer telescopes is an easy-to-assemble unit that demonstrates how to put together a star diagonal. It bends the light path 90° and also ...

As I write this, NASA’s mission to Jupiter, a satellite called Juno, has been maneuvered into obit around this gas-giant planet. So why is NASA so interested in Jupiter? Jupiter has fascinated ...