The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope's new high-speed camera captured a fluid-dynamics phenomenon on the Sun, hinting at how its corona gets so hot.

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 16: The Moon hangs with Venus. Mars has ...

Catch our satellite side by side with bright planet Venus in the western sky after sunset, not far from the bright star Spica ...

The Red Planet meets the solar system’s most massive world early this morning as they two float among the stars of Gemini.

Mars and the crescent Moon hang together in the early-morning sky, straddling the border of Gemini and Taurus.

The 2026 total solar eclipse reaches Iceland and Spain on August 12. Astronomy magazine’s Senior Editor Alison Klesman is on the ground in Iceland and Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher is in Spain — follow ...

Venus is set to reach dichotomy today, so take the chance to view it half-lit through a telescope in the evening sky.

A Long March 7A breaks apart less than two minutes after liftoff, and SpaceX runs its routine Starlink cadence from both ...

A total eclipse of the Sun coincides with the peak of the annual Perseid shower, plus Venus reaches dichotomy in the sky this ...

The early-morning hours of August 13 will be the best time to view this year’s Perseid meteor shower, peaking under the New Moon that brought August 12’s total solar eclipse.The shower’s high rate, ...

The Moon passes in front of the stars of the Pleiades, visible in the eastern U.S., while distant ice giant Uranus hangs ...

Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus passes through superior conjunction, sitting just south of the ringed world this morning.