The Red Planet passes through M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster, a bright group of young stars in Cancer the Crab.
Integrity served as a deep-space testbed for technology that could aid cancer patients, serve remote clinics, and supercharge ...
Saturn reaches opposition this month, Neptune lingers near Saturn, Mars transits the Beehive, and Jupiter is occulted by the ...
The ringed planet reaches opposition and the Moon occults Jupiter in a rare event not to be missed in the sky this week.
The Red Planet plows through an open cluster, Mercury reaches greatest eastern elongation, and New Moon brings darkness in ...
This dense globular cluster is the only Messier object in Capricornus, perfectly positioned for evening observing in the Sea ...
Extragalactic globular clusters millions of light-years away are hiding in your astroimages. Here’s how to find them.
The ringed world’s brightest moon is passing north of its parent planet overnight tonight, making it particularly easy to ...
With no Moon in the sky, it’s the perfect time to look for the so-called false dawn before sunrise: the zodiacal light.
Since ESA’s Herschel observatory went dark in 2013, no space telescope has been observing in the far-infrared. NASA's new ...
Also at opposition this week, asteroid 2 Pallas is passing near a field star with similar brightness to the main-belt world ...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist and IceCube Neutrino Observatory principal investigator won the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' top honor for catching "ghost particles" from the ...