Asteroid 6 Hebe is now at opposition in Aquarius. It is visible all night, best seen shortly after midnight.

SpaceX Starship launch delay pushes the 10th test flight. Get details on the scrub, a Blue Origin delay, and a recap of last ...

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

A thin crescent Moon appears in the evening sky, visible for a short time after sunset in the constellation Virgo, near Mars ...

Today's New Moon is also called a Black Moon, as it is the third in a string of four New Moons in a single astronomical ...

Targeted SETI approach listens for alien radio 'spillover' during planetary alignments, using Earth's deep space ...

Ruddy planet Mars is just under 3° south of the twin suns that make up the double star Porrima in Virgo this evening.

A century from now, a pair of spacecraft might boldly go where no human-made object has gone before: a black hole. Here's how ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.