The darkly dressed hooded man - the one with the silver alien hanging from his neck and the deranged eyeball glasses that blinked on and off - suddenly began hurling objects into the crowd. Milky Ways ...

TO deal in any adequate sense and in an elementary manner with the whole subject of astronomy requires both inclinations and aptitudes which are not altogether common. It is a field in which the ...

The BA in astrophysical and planetary sciences provides students with a unified view of solar and space sciences, planetary systems (our solar system and others), stellar and galactic astronomy, and ...

Uniquely combining astrophysics and planetary science, the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences provides students with a unified view of space sciences; the solar system and comparative ...

Astronomy received 20 entries for its 2010 Astroimging Contest in the General category, ranging from shots of star trails to solar halos. The winning entry (at right) is by Tunç Tezel of Bursa, Turkey ...

A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light-years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity. The extremely strong gravity of a massive neutron ...

SINCE the year 1922, when the first edition of the Astronomer Royal's “General Astronomy” was published, the progress of the science has been truly remarkable. Naturally this cannot be said of all ...