It's hard to believe, but this is my last Starwatch column for 2014. I hope you had a great Christmas! This week I want to point out the big polygons you can see in the early evening Rochester sky ...

We’ve all heard it—no two snowflakes are alike. However, they all seem to share that same six-sided shape, so what’s going on? Why do they follow the same rulebook for structure but still end up ...

New details have emerged about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission. Scientists found patterns in the ground near the lander, multi-sided shapes about three to ...