Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out sometime soon and observe the great globular ...

Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...

On Episode 167 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by AJ Gemer of Lunar Outpost, a fast-moving company ...

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

On Episode 165 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with NASA astronaut Nick Hague, the first U.S. Space ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

An unexpected and astonishing find located more than 2.5 million light-years from Earth took top honors at the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards this week ...

The Night Sky This Week: May 13-19, 2024. It’s been the kind of weekend that only comes around once in a lifetime, with auroras at low latitudes across the globe witnessed by more people than at ...

The Night Sky This Week: July 8-14, 2024. The week following a new moon is always a great opportunity to get outside looking west after dark. This week, there’s a chance to see a waxing crescent ...

Scientists from around the world are gathered in Maryland this week for the so-called "Super Bowl of astronomy." the 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.