astronomy

Arts, Culture & Media

How Hubble Brought Color to the Universe

Mar 24, 2018

shukor in space

Islam and the cosmos

Full EpisodeMar 6, 2018

Why we still remember a ‘relatively’ important eclipse nearly a century later

Aug 11, 2017

A composite image of a partial (left) and total (right) solar eclipse, taken in March 2015.

What you need to know about this month’s total solar eclipse

Aug 8, 2017

When Sona Hosseini went on a class trip to the planetarium, she fell in love with the stars.

Her love of the stars made her lose track of her life on Earth

Apr 12, 2017

Astronomers report there are 2 trillion galaxies in the ‘observable’ universe

Oct 13, 2016

Gaia - Milky Way

Mapping the Milky Way as never before

Sep 14, 2016

Courting Latinos, Loving and Hating Valentine’s Day, Understanding the Universe

Full EpisodeFeb 11, 2016

Toxic Taps, Exoplanets, A Lasting Legacy

Full EpisodeJan 18, 2016

An artist's rendering of a habitable moon orbiting a gas giant planet.

Life beyond Earth? The best bet may be on moons, not planets

Mar 6, 2015

An artist's rendering if Kepler 186f, a world extremely similar to Kepler 438b, an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting an M-class dwarf star in the habitable zone.

Up close, ‘Earth-like’ planets are still wildly unfamiliar worlds

Mar 3, 2015

Comet Lovejoy has probably passed through the inner solar system at least once already—we just weren't alive to see it.

Look hard and you can see Comet Lovejoy lighting up the night sky

Jan 14, 2015

The crew and back-up team for Ahad Momand's mission. Momand is third from the left.

The only Afghan to ever fly in space almost didn’t make it back to Earth

Oct 24, 2014

This year’s October sky should be pretty cool — starting this morning

Oct 7, 2014

Galaxy formation

The water on Earth is even older than the sun

Sep 29, 2014

Artist's drawing of a black hole named Cygnus X-1

A high-powered telescope peers into the dark heart of a black hole

Sep 5, 2014

Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope have found the best candidates yet for habitable worlds beyond the solar system.

Hello? Is anybody out there?

Nov 5, 2013