The innermost planet of our solar system is now well placed for observers.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out sometime soon and observe the great globular cluster M22 in the constellation Sagittarius the Archer. From a dark site on ...

Summer arrives for northern observers as the Moon visits Venus, Uranus, and Mercury. Plus: globular cluster M15, double star ...

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

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 Met Office said solar activity is expected to increase to 'Unsettled to Active' with 'G1/Minor Storm (Kp5) intervals' on ...

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 ...

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

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the moon's northern hemisphere, on Thursday (June 5) at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT).

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.