Our January night sky offers up some really amazing sights and some that are better viewed from remote locations. What about something that is equally fascinating and visible from the brightly lit ...

Since 1986 I have had an affiliation with the Hayden Planetarium in New York. My "official" title there is "Associate and Guest Lecturer." Indeed, through all of these years I given scores of ...

I am definitely getting spoiled by the remote operation capabilities of the Fort Lewis College observatory. Or else I am just getting lazier as the years go by. In either case I am less enthusiastic ...

NORFOLK, Va. — As temperatures soar and the sun blazes, we find ourselves in the middle of the "Dog Days of Summer." These next few weeks will give us heatwaves and lethargic afternoons, but what ...

As summers go, this one hasn’t been unusually hot here in the Anza-Borrego Desert in Southern California, but it’s not over yet! We’ve still got a while before the onset of autumn and, hopefully, the ...

With San Antonio temperatures this week reaching some of their highest levels of the year, you might think this is what they mean by “the dog days of summer.” Well, you’d be wrong: The dog days ...