It's a lot harder to reach for the stars—and everything else in space—when you have to spell out by hand their names and all the technical terms related to them. That's why the International ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." These days, high-tech cameras and sensors enable modern astronomers to do everything from hunting for ...

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform we talk about the use of petascale supercomputers for training deep learning algorithms. More specifically, how this happening in Astronomy ...

The night sky has always fascinated us. The stars, our moon, and the nearby planets have always been inexplicably captivating. Even now, there's simply no substitute for the experience of looking up ...

A machine learning method called “deep learning,” which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze ...

The Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) established the Chiricahua Astronomy Complex (CAC), a 16-acre dark-sky observing site in southeastern Arizona, to combat light pollution affecting their ...

Learning Encounters’ StarScout Telescope Kit lets you build your own small refractor. It features a 1.57-inch (40mm) glass objective lens and a 20mm high-quality Kellner eyepiece, which provides a ...

I recently embarrassed myself by admitting that I know nothing about astronomy and can’t fathom my kids’ passion for it, even when we are standing under the night sky with a super-telescope. I’ve ...

As I write this, NASA’s mission to Jupiter, a satellite called Juno, has been maneuvered into obit around this gas-giant planet. So why is NASA so interested in Jupiter? Jupiter has fascinated ...

Galileo Galilei, the first modern scientist, was a lone wolf. With his tiny refractor telescope and many nights of solo observations, Galileo dramatically altered the trajectory of human culture. But ...