The ringed planet shows off several moons, Venus hangs with the Beehive, and Mercury passes Regulus in the sky this week.

Using a cutting-edge adaptive optics system developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, a growing planet ...

A Black Moon leaves the skies dark for deep-sky observing, then a waxing crescent moves through Virgo and hangs with Mars.

IF summer holiday boredom is setting in, the answer could be written in the stars. Astronomy is growing in popularity across the UK, with retailer Argos reporting sales of telescopes and ...

The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the glowing band of the Milky Way, with an early-setting crescent moon providing ...

You will be able to see the following planets during the planetary parade: Mercury - Visible to the naked eye, but binoculars ...

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona ...

The autumnal equinox is on Sept. 22 — a day of equal daylight and darkness that happens twice per year. The fall equinox ...

Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were puzzled when one that had been stable for more than a decade almost disappeared for eight months.

According to new information on SkySafari 6 Pro, a program used to predict the placement of stars and planets, Thursday, Aug.

This resolves a long-standing controversy in the field of astronomy." The WISPIT 2 system as seen by the Magellan Telescope ...

A rare black moon will happen tonight Aug. 22-23. Don't worry too much if you miss it, although it won't happen again for ...