Astronomy magazine’s mobile-friendly website just added another reason you should immediately bookmark http://m.astronomy.com in your smart phone’s browser. Already offering on-the-go access to the latest astronomy and space news, staff blogs...

Astronomy outreach continues to grow in the United States and elsewhere as professional and amateur astronomers discover the pleasures of sharing their passion with others. In the United States, one major avenue of support for astronomy clubs and societies...

Any visitor to a star party likely would notice that there aren’t a lot of young people attending. A constant flurry of technology seems to put stargazing on the backburner for the younger generations. As the great astronomy popularizer Carl Sagan...

By now you probably have heard the story that you might not have the astrological sign you thought you did because of Earth’s gradual precession (or wobble), changing where constellations appear in the sky over time. Disappointed and sometimes hostile...

Astronomy columnist and contributing editor Stephen James O’Meara spent the past few days in Panama as the guest of the U.S. Embassy on a Speakers Grant to attend the 1st Congress of Panama Amateur Astronomy 2011. He was kind enough to share Panama’s...

Thursday was my last day (or really hour) at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. I went to the morning invited talk, which is usually a great way to figure out what theories, and what scientists, are big in the field right now. Eric Agol...

Wednesday was another busy day at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. I ran into a few contributors to Astronomy magazine (it’s always great to meet the people I talk to on the phone) and my roommate from a summer research internship...

The Planck science team released their early results today . While the mission’s main purpose is to study the Big Bang’s “light echo” (the cosmic microwave background, or CMB), it hasn’t yet compiled and analyzed enough data...

A few exoplanet discoveries kicked off the press conference portion of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. (Worlds around other stars is a hot topic.) The first presentation came from a study that didn’t find what it was supposed to...

After arriving in Seattle Sunday, I went to the conference center to get my American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting badge and the giant book of abstracts for the next few days. (And I ran into a friend from grad school!) Since then, I’ve been...

On Sunday the 9th, I’ll head out to Seattle, Washington, to represent Astronomy magazine at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. I haven’t been to one since 2009, so I’m pretty psyched (plus, Seattle is a wonderful...

Guest blog by Michael T. Kitt What could be more exciting than an inside look at an astronomical research facility? Lowell Observatory, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, is now offering a program developed specifically for astronomy clubs and groups....