Follow the foot traffic. Sidewalk astronomers often set up at street fairs, outdoor events, nightlife hotspots, or by any venue where a lot of people tend to pass by. If you want to set up at an event ...

In 1959, Nancy Grace Roman became the first chief of astronomy at NASA. She worked tirelessly to advocate for space telescopes to study the Universe. Her leadership and perseverance paid off with some ...

This year, June 21 marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the beginning of summer. At this moment in Earth's journey around the Sun, our planet is positioned so that the north pole is ...

Artemis III is the next step in NASA’s plan to bring humankind back to the Moon. In 2027, the mission will launch astronauts into orbit around Earth, where they will dock with two test versions of ...

Around the time of Apollo 11, when Wernher von Braun was asked about what stood in the way of sending humans to Mars, he reportedly answered, “political will.” But recent events (including a medical ...

An extinction-level event can be thought of as a sudden, external calamity wiping out a given species. For the dinosaurs, it was the Chicxulub impactor. For NASA’s science program, it very well may be ...

Only days after NASA launched astronauts to the Moon for the first time in decades, the White House’s budgeting office announced a plan to reduce NASA’s workforce by thousands and cancel over 50 NASA ...

If space is the final frontier, then it’s easy to imagine the Kuiper belt as the wilderness beyond the last ghost town. Out in the far reaches of the Solar System, there are up to millions of ...

This is your one-stop space exploration and astronomy calendar for 2026: from mission launches and space exploration milestones to celestial events and exciting changes in our Solar System, it’s all ...

This is good news for donors since most taxpayers don’t itemize their taxes. Beginning in 2026, individuals who do not itemize deductions may claim a cash gift deduction of up to $1,000 for single ...

The Planetary Society’s co-founder Carl Sagan famously said that we are made of starstuff. The full quote comes from his 1980 television series “Cosmos”: “The Cosmos is within us. We are made of ...

The odds of there being other planets like Earth in the Universe are heavily stacked in our favor. If every planet in our galaxy were the size of a basketball, you could stretch them in a line from ...