The Quadrantids will be harder to see than usual due to the bright full moon. Here's how to get the best views.

Born Dec. 31, 1864, in California, Robert Aitken was frequently ill as a child, with severe ear infections that eventually ...

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Lalit Mengi [email protected] India had blazed a trail across the world, in the millennium and a half from 250 BC to ...

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Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

The center will make a nice connection between Stevenson and the community but also give students a program that many schools ...

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.

Now decades later, the 78-year-old Salvia, a student at Santa Barbara City College, has no shortage of stories. With 17 college degrees and half a dozen professional certificates, and a life full of ...

Bob Benjamin is an ORHS Class of 1983 alumnus who has tirelessly worked to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.