Sky Map is a solid stargazing app that will particularly appeal to beginners. Although it lacks the more technically impressive features found on some other apps, the fact that it's free makes it well ...

The race to uncover the secrets of the Universe is on: NASA's most recent astrophysics space telescope has begun returning data, and unlike what's happening with other telescope projects, absolutely ...

Even the best stargazing apps—perfect for the new iPhone 14—are a form of cheating. They stop you from learning what's in the night sky and instead keep your eyes firmly glued to your smartphone’s ...

A space observatory designed to map the entire sky over a period of two years to further our understanding of the early universe has started snapping images. SPHEREx, which launched in early March, ...

The Nebra Sky Disk, a 12-inch copper disk with inlaid celestial representations, is debated as either the oldest known concrete representation of astronomical phenomena (circa 1600 B.C.) or a later ...

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