In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the many planets currently in our night sky. You'll see four of ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and watch a close pairing of two naked-eye planets: Venus and Saturn. The ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue ...

The trail is a curated collection of national and state parks, observatories, planetariums, and musuems that offer travelers ...

The moon will be only 61% illuminated and not quite so dazzling, making this upcoming occultation easy to see and enjoy.

Astronomers from Turkey and Japan have performed optical observations of a recently discovered nearby supernova remnant known as G206.7+5.9. Results of their observations, published Jan. 28 on the ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which are each about the size of Earth’s Grand Canyon. By Kenneth Chang ...