Astronomy magazine: 50 years and counting The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each issue includes ...

Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotation defied Newton's laws. This unexpected rotation provided the first direct evidence of dark matter. Dark matter makes up about 84% of the universe's matter.

Human perception of time is an illusion constructed by the brain, based on memory and anticipation, limited to an experience of the "now" lasting approximately one second. This subjective experience ...

Apollo mission lunar samples provided crucial data, initially intended to test existing Moon formation theories (capture, co-formation, fission), but ultimately leading to the development of the Giant ...

The world’s best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color ...

The article details the observation of NGC 2264, designated as the Christmas Tree Cluster, on December 24. This celestial object is identified as a magnitude 3.9 combination open cluster and ...

Lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions provided crucial data, revealing the Moon's age, low density, similar oxygen isotopic composition to Earth's mantle, and depletion of volatile elements, ...

During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

A new era in lunar research is coming, and Lunar Vertex is getting ready to lead the way. Lunar Vertex is NASA’s first so-called PRISM mission (Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of ...

The speed of light is a fundamental constant, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second. It's the same for all observers and hasn't changed measurably over billions of years. Nothing can travel ...

An international team of scientists have developed a “space salad” that can keep astronauts well-nourished on future missions into deep space. The salad consists of seven ingredients — soybeans, poppy ...

September offers various celestial events, including Saturn and Neptune's oppositions, Mars's approach to solar conjunction, and favorable viewing of Uranus and Jupiter. Multiple transits of Saturn's ...