Dr. Sky

Here we go again! It seems that we read that headline all too often -- large asteroid passes near Earth.

With the season of spring well underway, there is a bright and magical star to view in our Arizona skies this April. The star is known as Arcturus.

Astronomers at the University of California-Berkeley have detected a star which they believe is some 9 billion light years from Earth. This new star discovery, MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, is a most amazing find indeed.

The world is getting ready for the final orbit of the Chinese space station Tiangong 1, which has been orbiting the Earth once every 90 minutes since 2011.

Taking a closer look at the Sun and how the solar sunspot cycle affects the Earth is an amazing story in itself, Dr. Sky writes.

JUNO, a new and exciting spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016, revealing some of the biggest mysteries about the planet.

In this week's blog, Dr. Sky explored whether there was time before the Big Bang created all matter about 13 to 15 billion years ago.

China’s first major space station, the Tiangong 1, is set to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere sometime this year, likely next month.

Arizona observers have a chance to see one of the most amazing stars in the sky, Canopus, during the month of February.

Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, will return to the evening sky around Feb. 14, appropriately just in time for Valentine's Day.