An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need ...

Space! It's been called the "final frontier." It's powerful, infinite and some would say unknowable. But astronomer Dean Regas is not among them. As he says in the forward to his new "1,000 Facts ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The first detection in 1995 of a planet orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system marked the dawn of a new age of discovery-one that ...