Saturn dominates the predawn sky, while Mars is rising earlier each day. The Red Planet is still a bit challenging — can you ...

The contest features eight categories, prizes worth nearly $5,000, and a no-equipment-required entry path; submissions close June 22, 2026 ...

Now in Cancer, the Moon is not far from M44, the Beehive Cluster. Check out this lovely open cluster with binoculars or a ...

The Moon sits between bright Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky, tracing out the plane of the ecliptic for all to see.

The SMILE spacecraft turns toward Earth's magnetic shield as the solar wind streams in from the Sun (left), in this artist's impression. Once on orbit, the joint ESA-Chinese Acade ...

After 40+ years of development, design, construction, and delays, the Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, on ...

On May 19, 1939, Francis “Dick” Scobee was born in Washington State. Scobee joined the Air Force at age 18, taking night courses to earn a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering and getting an ...

Now 15th magnitude, the comet is well-positioned for observation late overnight and into the early-morning hours.

This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to look to the western sky on the evening of May 21 and see a crescent Moon near the open star cluster M44, also known as the ...

Following the roaring success of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, the space agency is devising plans for a final test flight before attempting to land the first humans on the Moon in decades, as soon as 2028 ...

A crescent Moon guides the way to the Red Planet as galaxies glow and Venus stands between the horns of the Bull in the sky ...

The Moon is now just over two days old, a sliver of its eastern limb lit by the Sun as sunrise slowly crawls across the nearside. Catch the delicate crescent this evening, when it stands just 2° from ...