Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation Beginning to familiarize yourself with the night sky can feel daunting—with so many pinpricks of light above, parsing the constellations or identifying individual
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One of the main arguments for studying other planets is for what they can tell us about Earth. Did or do they harbor life? What clues can they offer about
Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation When attending their first meeting with the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas several years ago, Victoria Catlett heard the word “marathon” in a