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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening this spring to observe one of ...
In the 35 years since the Hubble Space Telescope flew to space, it has taken pictures of comets, merging galaxies, planets, supernova remnants, and more. The first-of-its-kind telescope — a ...
View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.
Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what ...
Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.
Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...
PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...
The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...
A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...
The shining Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) in Hydra checks almost every box an amateur astronomer could desire.