Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ($12,200), as a "private international buyer" ...

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Longtime readers will recognize the name Dean Regas, astronomy contributor to The Enquirer and former cohost of the PBS series "Star Gazers," but they may not know that Regas is also the author of ...

With holiday gift-giving season right around the corner, one frequent request I get is to recommend some good astronomy books for the relative beginner. Yes, books. You may remember them from way back ...

A University of Virginia astronomy professor will take part in a book talk at signing at a Charlottesville bookshop this weekend. Kelsey Johnson will be speaking about her new nonfiction book, Into ...

CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati-based publisher has created the first astronomy publication designed from the ground up to be accessible to both sighted and visually-impaired readers. Clovernook Press, the ...

An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need knowledge to help you understand the universe. Some of the most important sources ...

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As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence depended on a celestial accident some 66 million years ago, when “an asteroid coincidentally ...

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