This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers will peak in early to mid-November this year, possibly bringing fireballs.

There will be plenty of opportunities to catch a shooting star this month, with tonight and tomorrow night being a peak viewing time.

An excellent example is the famous ... name because is discovered nearly simultaneously by an observatory in China and ATLAS, a network of four telescopes that continually scan the heavens for ...

My name is Joseph Beyer and I’m a pinhead (an affectionate ... As the years passed and the video game revolution began, ...

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money.

Hershey established his famous chocolate company in 1894 ... It's unclear why the sonorous rocks (their technical name) ring, though one geologist theory is that the rocks were under high pressure ...

The Crab Nebula is about as famous as a space cloud can get—it's ... The Extreme Outer Galaxy is a dense star-forming region that gets its name from its position 58,000 light-years from the ...

Expeditions have been launched from Duckburg to the Moon, Mars, Venus, the Asteroids, and more remote parts of the ... Scrooge proceeded to construct his famous Money Bin and established various ...

He wrote more than 80 books and 500 articles and short stories, including the famous novel “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968). It was written concurrently with Stanley Kubrick’s film of the same name and ...

Here’s how it works. A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as ...