Planet Venus comes to a halt against the background stars; catch it shortly after sunset along with Mercury, before the pair ...

The brilliant planet Jupiter dazzles anyone with a clear sky. Roman observers named Jupiter after the patron deity of the Roman state following Greek mythology, which associated it with the supreme ...

A 155-year-old typo made an 1848 train delay in England look like the earliest case of space weather disrupting technology.

On June 5, 2026, NASA ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in a docked spacecraft and prepare to abandon ship. The reason was a longstanding, but worsening, ...

The ringed planet reaches opposition and the Moon occults Jupiter in a rare event not to be missed in the sky this week.

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Saturn reaches opposition this month, Neptune lingers near Saturn, Mars transits the Beehive, and Jupiter is occulted by the ...

Tonight’s a two-for-one deal as the Double Cluster shines in Perseus’ northwestern corner, ready for wide-field or closeup ...

The 192nd asteroid discovered in the main belt is now at its best, located within a diamond shape of brighter field stars.

Scientists once thought luminiferous ether pervaded the cosmos. Michelson and Morley’s ingenious experiment to find it ...

Neptune reaches opposition this evening at 10 P.M. EDT, placing the planet at its best for viewing. However, with the nearly ...

Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, transits the gas giant’s disk this morning. Some part of the event, which lasts more than ...