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A total eclipse of a "Blue Moon" will occur on Jan. 31 -- the first time this has happened since 1866.

Susan Schneider of the University of Connectict and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton is one of the few thinkers--outside the realm of science fiction-- that have considered the notion that artificial intel...

Happy New Year 2018. One of the toughest choices we made last year was to not write a full astronomical guide for 2018. We've done this in one iteration or another now for about a decade, but an ongoing project (also ast...

Young galaxies blaze with bright new stars forming at a rapid rate, but star formation eventually shuts down as a galaxy evolves. A new study, published January 1, 2018, in Nature, shows that the mass of the black hole i...

"The question of whether advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in the universe has always been vexed with three large uncertainties in the Drake equation," said University of Rochester astronomer, Adam Frank. "We've kno...

Skywatchers who intend to observe the "super" full moon tonight (Jan. 1) may find that Earth's lunar companion doesn't actually appear particularly "super."

"This is where we get to the great irony of the story - because in the end it wasn't the size of the asteroid, the scale of blast, or even its global reach that made dinosaurs extinct - it was...