Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 17: The Moon skims south of Venus. Comet 10P ...

The Moon passes 2° south of Venus at 1 P.M. EDT. By this evening, they are roughly 6° apart, with the Moon to Venus’ lower left in the sky tonight, instead of the lower right (as it appeared yesterday ...

Earth’s satellite sits near Regulus in the heart of Leo the Lion this evening, with blazing Venus nearby in the western sky ...

China's asteroid sample-return probe has closed to within 20 kilometers of 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, kicking off its science ...

The Red Planet passes due north of red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus the Bull. Catch the lovely early-morning view if you’re ...

Everyone can watch a small moon skim Saturn’s northern pole, while advanced imagers may catch its shadow on the cloud tops.

Look up this evening to find the season’s most famous asterism, the Summer Triangle, with the plane of the Milky Way running ...

Famous double stars Mizar and Alcor in the handle of the Big Dipper are a visual challenge with the naked eye — can you split ...

Launched on July 3, NASA's Swift Boost mission aims to save the agency's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from a decaying orbit ...

Astronomers searching the deep sky with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope have turned up the oldest quasars ever recorded — bright galactic cores that came to life when the ...

Our satellite stands as the apex of a triangle with two outer planets — Saturn and Neptune — in the early-morning sky.