There's something sort of cool in the next version of Apple's iOS. It's called ARKit—basically, it's a part of Apple's developer package to help programmers create awesome augmented reality apps. Like ...

Astronomers from the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), in collaboration with others from the REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars (RECONS), have determined new distances to a group of faint young stars ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The parsec is one of the most commonly used distance measurements in astronomy — even more so ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. What RECONS does is take the largest, faintest surveys it can of the ...