Note: Moon phases in the calendar vary in size due to the distance from Earth and are shown at 0h Universal Time. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly The moonrise and moonset schedule this week The ...

From three meteor showers to a planetary alignment right next to a famous constellation, here are the top astronomy events to mark on your November 2024 calendar.

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months ...

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A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Scientists used techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that the Antikythera mechanism contained a lunar calendar. Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of objects and phenomena that are found beyond our solar system. This combines theoretical simulations and observation with both terrestrial and space ...

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A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy. At the University of Nebraska at Kearney, two students are building a community for anyone interested in ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light ...