There are fixed stars or suns millions of light-years away, a distance which makes Arcturus, with its forty lightyears, seem rather near. The light of our own sun, on the other hand, is but a few ...

As I sit here with the flu, the thought of travels to far away places makes for a pleasant distraction. How about a journey to Arcturus? If you could zoom away at light speed, you'd arrive in just ...

Let’s settle on a distance in between, at the edge of survivability: 12 parsecs. Make it an even Kessel run. Arcturus, the reddish, fourth-brightest star in the night sky, is at about this distance.

Life & Culture; The moon is slowly drifting away from Earth. Here’s how that affects us each day. Published: ; May. 13, 2025, 1:18 p.m.