Grand opening events are taking place this week at The Space Store’s new retail location in downtown Chattanooga.

In recent years, many amateur astronomers have added a new item to their toolkit: a smartphone. Here are one observer's ...

Despite having the wrong ideas about how the Moon’s craters formed, these 19th-century astronomers created highly accurate ...

Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth. So, astrobiologists need to study how complex systems evolve.

Jupiter reaches its best apparition in a decade for northern observers and offers a wealth of detail. Joining in late evening is brilliant Mars, now a month from opposition. Saturn is visible in ...

Several meteor showers will enjoy excellent viewing prospects in 2025, starting with the Quadrantids, peaking Jan. 3. The ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Geminid meteor shower, which will peak during the early morning hours ...

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

Although its mission is over, NEOWISE still has much to share with the astronomical community, including these stunning new ...

An 11-inch scope will reveal Pluto and a few similarly faint stars, but a larger instrument will improve your odds a lot.

After years of effort, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced they managed to capture the first ...