Archimedes Notebook

In mid-December a comet named Wirtanen (46P) will be approaching the sun. And it may be bright enough that we’ll be able to see it withou...

credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This is going to be a great year for watching Mars. Over the next few months the red planet will get brighter i...

My kids loved going outside at night. We'd watch meteors, listen to insects, and go on moon-lit walks to look for nightlife. Here's ...

March is Women's History month, so I thought I'd kick it off with a true story of a woman in science: Caroline's Comets, a tru...

Tonight is a good night for sky-watching. There should be meteors. What else do you see? Hear? Are any geese migrating yet? Re...

Tonight is a good night for sky-watching.  There should be meteors.  What else do you see? Hear? Smell? Remember to take yo...

Tonight is a good night for sky-watching. There should be meteors. What else do you see? Hear? Smell? Remember to take your sketc...

 Watch the moon rise. How do the smells and sounds and colors of the night differ from daytime? Capture what you see and hear and feel i...

The Secret Galaxy by Fran Hodgkins; photos by Mike Taylor 32 pages; ages 6-11 Tilbury House, 2014 "You might not know I'm he...

The astronomers at Kopernik Observatory & Space Center say that we should be able to see a new comet this week. The comet, "PanSTAR...

OK, they’re not really stars. They’re the Orionid meteors, bits and pieces of Halley’s Comet left behind from the last time the comet...