This unique pair of craters was created by just one impactor that skipped along the lunar surface, leaving a cometlike tail ...

Two jovian moons cross each other’s paths from our point of view, appearing to merge in the telescope eyepiece.

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The planet Mercury stands 25° east of the Sun. View the solar system’s smallest planet, along with the crescent Moon, in the ...

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

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Astronomers can use lensing to learn about everything from the makeup of the universe to the nature of extrasolar planets.

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

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 ...

Since ESA’s Herschel observatory went dark in 2013, no space telescope has been observing in the far-infrared. NASA's new ...

From the Crab Nebula to the Orion Nebula, these 10 winter deep-sky objects are easy to find and perfect targets for small ...