A crescent Moon passing in front of our solar system’s largest planet is a rare and brilliant sight. Here's how to see it for ...

Saturn reaches opposition this month, Neptune lingers near Saturn, Mars transits the Beehive, and Jupiter is occulted by the ...

Tonight’s a two-for-one deal as the Double Cluster shines in Perseus’ northwestern corner, ready for wide-field or closeup ...

Recent months have featured a few stories about how Albert Einstein’s theories, or the ideas underpinning them, have all been confirmed to a new degree of accuracy. That’s usually the case: Scientists ...

The 192nd asteroid discovered in the main belt is now at its best, located within a diamond shape of brighter field stars.

Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, transits the gas giant’s disk this morning. Some part of the event, which lasts more than ...

Walking and driving around through our everyday lives, we tend to think of life on Earth as a static proposal. Rarely do people look up and think of the big universe that exists around us. We do live ...

The September Full Moon rules the skies this evening. Because it is the Full Moon closest to the equinox, it is called the ...

Neptune reaches opposition this evening at 10 P.M. EDT, placing the planet at its best for viewing. However, with the nearly ...

A space rock struck the Moon in 2024, carving a 728-foot crater. Two new studies show how the impact reshaped the lunar ...

The solar system’s most distant planet is now at opposition and looking its best. Search it out after dark using optical aid.

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