The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

The celestial object described is an open cluster, NGC 7789, possessing an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and located between 5th-magnitude Sigma Cassiopeiae and 6th-magnitude Rho Cas, known by several ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

At the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this one held in Phoenix on January 4-8, Andrea Dupree of the Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian presented a talk entitled, ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

It’s back: Astronomy magazine’s free downloadable Sky Guide, your preview of everything happening in the sky next year. Mars opens 2025 by reaching opposition the night of Jan. 15/16, when it shines ...

During the past week, you had to get up before morning twilight to spot Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). And you still can. But thanks to its position in the north, now you also can see it in the evening sky ...

With the gibbous Moon in Leo, our best bet for observing other targets lies in the western sky this evening. Visible there are the two famous open clusters of Taurus: the Pleiades and Hyades. The ...