Planetarium show attendees select their seats before a show. The Royden G. Derrick Planetarium on BYU's campus provides weekly shows to students and the public, according to the website. (Ty Mullen) ...

A machine learning method called “deep learning,” which has been widely used in face recognition and other image- and speech-recognition applications, has shown promise in helping astronomers analyze ...

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform we talk about the use of petascale supercomputers for training deep learning algorithms. More specifically, how this happening in Astronomy ...

Are you a fan of Myst? Odyssey is cut from the same cloth, tasking players with unravelling the mysteries of a 3D environment, solving mind-bending puzzles and exploring in first-person as they go.

EDWARDS ” For most of us, reading the night sky is limited to spotting Orion, the Big Dipper, the Milky Way, the occasional planet and the moon. Most of us are clear on important astronomical concepts ...

Even though Lake Metroparks Astronomy Day Open House took place less than a day after the best viewing in Ohio of the lunar eclipse, the free event still sparked stargazing interest among visitors to ...

It's a lot harder to reach for the stars—and everything else in space—when you have to spell out by hand their names and all the technical terms related to them. That's why the International ...

Veteran skywatchers say looking at the night sky is fun, educational and even awe-inspiring. The celestial views won't be anywhere near as crisp and detailed as those captured by the Hubble Space ...

Galileo Galilei, the first modern scientist, was a lone wolf. With his tiny refractor telescope and many nights of solo observations, Galileo dramatically altered the trajectory of human culture. But ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." These days, high-tech cameras and sensors enable modern astronomers to do everything from hunting for ...

I recently embarrassed myself by admitting that I know nothing about astronomy and can’t fathom my kids’ passion for it, even when we are standing under the night sky with a super-telescope. I’ve ...