Historical observations of the Moon's motion, dating back to ancient civilizations, played a crucial role in the development of timekeeping and calendar systems. The Moon's orbital cycle can be ...

A new search engine will soon turn your night sky images into powerful research data and identify the twinkling objects in them with just the click of a button. The Astrometry.net database will hunt ...

This study investigated the impact of an open inquiry experience on elementary science methods students' understanding of celestial motion as well as the methods developed by students to answer their ...

THIS is the sixth edition of an interesting little book, which explains briefly the principal facts relating to the motions of celestial bodies, and to the dimensions of those belonging to our own ...

A Feb. 22 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims a form of navigation that relies on celestial objects such as the sun, moon and stars proves the Earth is flat and stationary. "The Ancients ...

Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics by Edward Belbruno, Princeton University Press, £32.95/$49.95, ISBN 0691094802 Reviewed by Carl Murray YOU have just launched a ...

Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it one of the shortest days of 2025 at 86,399.99867 seconds long. How that happens, and how we can ...

From Mercury’s rare glow to the fiery Taurid and Leonid meteor showers, November 2025 promises a cosmic spectacle visible to anyone willing to look up. The month will unveil the largest full moon of ...

Validation figure. Left: contours of predicted and measured chaotic outcome distribution in a bi-variate space describing the motion of the outgoing binary. Right: the ratio of the predicted and ...

Do you remember the excitement around the 2017 total solar eclipse? Well, it is going to happen again on Monday, April 8, of this year. In a path a little more than 100 miles across, going ...