The “Cosmic Perspective Fundamentals” is the briefest introduction to astronomy in the Bennett series. It is carefully crafted to engage students and motivate them to learn about astronomy and ...

Star Walk, a simple astronomy app that harnesses the GPS in your phone and tells you exactly what’s going on over your head in the sky, gave me lots of ideas for arranging the bone spurs my players ...

Only 12 light years from Earth, Tau Ceti is the closest single star similar to the Sun and an all-time favorite in sci-fi stories. Habitable worlds orbiting Tau Ceti were destinations of fictional ...

COMMENCING with a chapter on our place in the universe, the author proceeds in the established sequence with chapters on the earth's motions, the sun, Mercury, Venus, &c., completing the discussion of ...

Higher-than-normal tides -- tied to a full moon -- have added to Hurricane Sandy's coastal flooding threat. As you might expect the explanation is a matter of simple astronomy, not any kind of lunacy ...