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Amateur astronomers from Illinois frequently venture out to Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Park, a 26-square mile conservation area of prairie and forest, famous for having the darkest skies in the state. But of course, l...

This post is by Tabby Boyajian, one of the Planet Hunters science team at Yale As you all know, planethunter volunteers use archive data taken with the Kepler space telescope to classify lightcurves and identify transiti...

A conversation with NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver is always livelier than her title would suggest. Her enthusiasm for all things space is immediately evident, and she always seems on the verge of speaking more ca...