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

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up in August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and ...

The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

Webb observations provide insights into planet and star formation The observations came from the Webb telescope, which surveyed a nebula named NGC 1333. The giant space cloud of dust and gas is ...

The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or ...

It'll be an active sky over several days in August 2025, with planets visible, meteor showers and nebulas popping up. Here's ...

Penn State astronomers are using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, combined with theoretical models, to ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever wanted to use a telescope to get a better look at the North Dakota prairie sky, your chance is coming this weekend in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.

Pictured is the nebula NGC1333 with three of the newly discovered rogue planets, indicated by green markers. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana ...

A formation known as the "Dumbbell Nebula" – nicknamed because it looks like a dumbbell – should be easy to spot throughout the August, NASA said in an skywatching guide.