When the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie first tried to canoe across North America in 1789, he unwittingly followed a river that led him north to the Arctic instead of west to the Pacific. When ...

April has some amazing astronomy activities you can do in your own backyard. Venus will shine at its brightest on April 27th and the moon can be seen with the dazzling star cluster Messier 35. “When ...

Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there is no narration or ...