A total lunar eclipse kicks off March. Jupiter is well placed most of the night, while Venus shines brilliantly and Uranus is ...

You can credit Earth’s atmosphere with providing an orangish color to the Moon during an eclipse. The atmosphere acts like a ...

A recent story in The Planetary Science Journal reported that scientists at the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and colleagues have produced the first global map ...

In July 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a “bit of scruff” in the radio data she was receiving at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Together with her Ph.D. advisor Antony Hewish, she zeroed ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is currently in Taurus, located roughly 5° south-southwest of the Pleiades star cluster (M45). Glowing at magnitude 5.8, the ice giant requires binoculars or a ...

In the latest delay for the Artemis 2 mission, NASA announced on Saturday that it will roll the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) as ...

Mars’ moons are easily visible at night from the Red Planet. Larger Phobos is brighter, while smaller Deimos is still brighter than any star.

The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You can use this sparkling star to point your way to the open cluster M47 in ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

A groundbreaking new study using artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray ...

The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter this evening at 9 P.M. EST. The pair is visible most of the night in the central region of Gemini. Early in the evening, the nearly Full Moon hangs to the upper ...

Saturn’s four brightest moons are lined up for ideal viewing this evening. You can catch the ringed planet for a few hours after sunset, as it slowly sinks toward the western horizon. Around 7 P.M.