Check out two conjunctions, the Last Quarter Moon, multiple asteroids at opposition, and more in the sky this week.
The center of the Milky Way stands above the southern horizon late at night in early July, just above the Teapot asterism in Sagittarius.
The Wizard Nebula is a dim gas cloud surrounding a bright cluster of young stars, located within the bounds of Cepheus the ...
The Full Moon glows, Mercury stands still, and Venus blazes bright as it closes in on the heart of in Leo the Lion in the sky ...
A robotic spacecraft headed to the Marshall Islands last week — the last stop on its way to rescue a 21-year-old NASA space ...
Mercury and Jupiter are growing closer in the evening sky, but the former is also getting fainter and more challenging to ...
Now shining at magnitude –4.1, Venus continues to dominate the western sky after sunset. Still some 15° high an hour after the Sun has disappeared, the bright planet sits beneath the backwards ...
This broad, bright emission nebula near the tail end of Cygnus the Swan is great for night owls up after midnight.
Full Moon occurs this evening at 7:57 P.M. EDT. The June Full Moon is also called the Strawberry Moon. According to NASA, this name comes from the Native American Algonquin tribes. Rising shortly ...
The strange, two-toned moon Iapetus moves north of Saturn early this morning, offering an easy chance to spot it.
Astronomical summer begins with a gorgeous lineup of lights in the evening sky, including three planets, two stars and the ...
Today in the history of astronomy, China’s mission returns the first samples from the lunar farside.