Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust ...

Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in West Virginia, Katherine Goble Johnson showed exceptional aptitude for mathematics from an early ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of August 26 and observe the ...

Asteroid 6 Hebe is now at opposition in Aquarius. It is visible all night, best seen shortly after midnight.

SpaceX Starship launch delay pushes the 10th test flight. Get details on the scrub, a Blue Origin delay, and a recap of last ...

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

A thin crescent Moon appears in the evening sky, visible for a short time after sunset in the constellation Virgo, near Mars ...

Ruddy planet Mars is just under 3° south of the twin suns that make up the double star Porrima in Virgo this evening.

Today's New Moon is also called a Black Moon, as it is the third in a string of four New Moons in a single astronomical ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

Although faint, Comet Wierzchoś can be picked up by larger scopes as it passes near the planetary nebula NGC 6058 this ...

Targeted SETI approach listens for alien radio 'spillover' during planetary alignments, using Earth's deep space ...