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

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

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

Just after sunset, look west to spot blazing Venus above the bright star Regulus in Leo the Lion, not far from the famous ...

For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their central black holes growing together. In the familiar story, a young galaxy forms first. Gas gathers. Stars ignite. Somewhere near the crowded ...

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

GRB 250314A is an ancient cosmic cataclysm caught by JWST's keen infrared eye. And it appears a lot like those that happen ...

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

With no Moon in the sky tonight, it’s a great opportunity to chase after fainter objects, such as the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) in Draco. High in the north a few hours after sunset, this planetary ...

Spread across a large swath of sky, the Coma Star Cluster is visible this evening for several hours after sunset, gorgeous in ...

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

The Red Planet meets the distant ice giant Uranus in the constellation Taurus, visible together in any optics early this ...