Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

The Fighting Dragons of Ara, also called the Rim Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6188, comprises dark, star-forming clouds and bright young suns.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

East of Gemini, where the bright planet Jupiter has been demanding attention, is the constellation Cancer. Closer to the horizon and to the lower left of the Twins early in the evening as the ...

After four centuries of advances, astronomers now capture the Sun’s swirling, dynamic features in stunning detail.

The celestial object described is an open cluster, NGC 7789, possessing an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and located between 5th-magnitude Sigma Cassiopeiae and 6th-magnitude Rho Cas, known by several ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) was discovered in October 2017; shortly after, it was determined to be the first object ever seen inside the solar system that had come from beyond it. But by the time its ...

This famous asterism at the heart of the Strongman is visible in the early-morning sky this month before sunrise.

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

The Moon has always beckoned. Long before our ancestors realized “wandering stars” were actually planets sharing the solar system with Earth, they recognized the Moon was a sort of sibling to our ...