Planetary nebula 6563 is a worthy challenge for larger scopes, floating near the base of the Teapot asterism in Sagittarius ...

See the Moon as it looked on July 20, 1969. Plus, check out Comet Tempel 2 as planet Mercury stands still in the sky this ...

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

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

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 ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal that the so-called “Roasted Planet” is getting cooked by its host ...

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 ...

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

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

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