There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...

Scientists say 3I/Atlas came closest to Mars in October. Its path this month put it in the path of the warm rays of our sun, where a tail became more visible. The 3.5-mile solar object is traveling at ...

Times listed are from The Sky This Week by Astronomy magazine, calculated for 40°N, 90°W. Central Wisconsin observers can expect sunrise, ...

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Join us every Wednesday during the semester at the Lin Hall Observatory (on the roof of Lin Hall) for a chance to see the night sky through our telescopes! We’ll ...

At the beginning of November 2025, the Moon and Saturn will be visually very close from the perspective of the Earth, the two bodies making an alignment that will be easily observed by the naked eye.

WINNIPEG — Carbon capture startup Deep Sky said Thursday that it plans to build a commercial carbon removal facility in southwestern Manitoba. The Montreal-based company says final site selection is ...

For most years in the Northern Hemisphere, the full harvest moon falls in September. The harvest moon is the closest full moon to the autumnal equinox. In 2025, the closest full moon to the equinox ...