Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point ...

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

Calling this object a “nebula” is a bit of a misnomer, but galaxy IC 2574 does feature impressively large star-forming regions.

Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...

The main-belt asteroid 3 Juno reached opposition yesterday afternoon, meaning it now lies directly opposite the Sun in our ...

The Coma Cluster is a rich group of galaxies visible in Coma Berenices, high in the southern sky late this evening.

The Moon could be the proving ground for humanity’s evolution, however, this new frontier raises complex legal questions.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

The ephemeral remnants left behind by exploding stars are some of the most extraordinary objects visible to astronomers here ...

The astronomer Halton C. Arp (1927–2013) was a very well-known researcher of galaxies and other distant objects. He is ...

The Lemon Slice Nebula (IC 3568) is a young planetary in Camelopardalis that serves as the poster child for symmetry.

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...