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Main-belt world Bamberga shines at 9th magnitude, an easy catch with a small scope as it moves through Capricornus.

There are big challenges associated with such a mission, from readying a craft quickly to finding the comet and sending data ...

The waning Moon steps up to form a triangle in the early-morning sky with two distant planets: Saturn and Neptune.

SpaceX flies a classified NRO mission from Cape Canaveral, China launches back-to-back Long March rockets in a single day, ...

Mercury reaches its greatest western elongation, Iapetus passes close to Saturn, and the Moon occults the Pleiades in the sky ...

Astronomers caught helium escaping the habitable-zone world LHS 1140 b — a signal that strengthens the case for the planet's ...

The Alpha Capricornid and the Southern Delta Aquariid meteor showers peak overnight, but the bright Moon will run ...

This rich grouping of young suns shines brightly in Aquila the Eagle, ripe for observing just after sunset and before ...

The solar system’s smallest planet comes to a standstill this afternoon, ending its current retrograde path and beginning to ...

Rising shortly after sunset, July’s Full Moon, called the Buck Moon, dominates the sky tonight with its bright light.

Shooting stars streak overhead, but they’re fighting the July Full Buck Moon that shines brightly in the sky this week.