An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why ...

Explore the wonders of the Northern Hemisphere's night sky with our guide to the best celestial sights you can observe with ...

These next two weeks we'll follow the moon's journey past the orange heart-star of Scorpius, Antares, and onward past blazing ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

May 2025 has a couple of fun astronomical events that may have you looking to the skies. May is when we’ll have opportunities to see a meteor shower, the flower moon, 2 globular star ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is slated to peak the night of May 5 into the morning of May 6, according to AccuWeather. This ...

Arguably, the highlight for astrophotographers this month is comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)’s brush with the Pleiades open cluster to ...

It’s a busy month for Mars and the moon—not to mention the Eta Aquariid meteor shower. Here’s what to watch for, and when.

Toward month's end, Jupiter will pair off with a narrow crescent moon just before it bids a fond adieu. The other evening planet, Mars, continues to fade as it moves away from Earth. Early in the ...

The crescent moon will appear "wafer thin" through the night of April 29 as it draws near to the large planet and will make its closest visual approach to Jupiter for the year as it passes over ...