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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Main-belt world Melpomene reaches opposition in the constellation Aquila. Visible all night, this space rock is ready for its ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The European Space Agency telescope’s discovery of 31 ancient quasars gives astronomers their first look at black holes from ...