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  Schedule Updated 9/21/2022 We are excited to announce the second Ariz...

Explore Scientific's Explore Alliance is honored to present the Global Star Party (GSP), where you can participate in a global live simulcast t...

Learn astrophotography processing techniques through 1-hour Astro Courses with Master MENTOR and astrophotographer Gary Palmer.  An Explore Allianc...

In cosmology, the anthropic principle involves any structure of the universe, the values of the constants of nature, or the laws of nature that ha...

On this episode of How Do You KNOW? Dr Daniel Barth will be discussing what all is involved in the Fine Tuning of Nature.  Because we tend to suspe...

Have you ever wondered how hard it can be to merge two black holes? Well it actually is a lot harder than you think. You would think that because t...

We hear the phrase "You can't prove that!" all the time. But is it a valid criticism? On this episode of How Do You Know Dr Daniel Barth will defi...

Jupiter is well named after the King of the Gods in Greek mythology, it is the largest planet in both mass and size, and possesses the ...

Misconceptions about large numbers are some of the most persistent and troublesome bits of misinformation. Not just children, but a lar...

The idea that tides are linked to the Moon is an old one. Galileo was one of the first scientists to develop the idea of tides being...

The French mathematician and astronomer, Edouard Roche, is most famous for his work on celestial mechanics and his discovery of t...

We all know that the gravitational field of any moon causes tides on its home planet. The height of the tide for a moon also depends upon the natur...

In August of 2006 the International Astronomical Union famously downgraded Pluto, which was considered the 9th planet in our solar system, to be re...

If you study science long enough, you eventually discover that Galileo was right about the constantly changing nature of scientific knowledge. Y...

There is a misconception that ‘doing real astronomy’ is difficult and expensive, only highly trained and generously funded people can do it; ...

Humans have attempted to map the stars in the sky since antiquity.  The earliest Western catalog of stars was created by the Greek astronomer...

  Fact, Hypothesis, Theory There is a distinct hierarchy in science that distinguishes facts, hypotheses, and theories. We misunderstand and ...

Mars - The Dying Planet Astronomers have been exploring Mars with telescopes for four centuries, and the fascination of the red planet with its ...

Russian biologist A. P. Oparin and Scottish biologist J. B. S. Haldane both proposed an early reducing atmosphere on Earth consisting of hydr...

The Viking Experiments In the early 1960’s, long before humans had left low Earth orbit, NASA was planning a mission to Mars that would soft-...

Sketching Saturn: The Box and Rectangle Method The first discoveries the system of the rings and moons around Saturn predate photographic tec...

Saturn has 7 major moons and more than 70 known moonlets. For the amateur astronomer, detecting and identifying these major moons is a challe...

We normally think of galaxies as some of the largest, brightest structures in the universe – but that isn’t always true. It is star formation t...

Ultra-diffuse galaxies are generally quenched dwarf galaxies with no gas reservoirs, they are therefore unable to form new stars; as a result, ...