Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

If you look halfway up in the northwest, you'll be able to see the familiar zigzag of five bright stars forming the ...

Arizona is home to 22 dark sky locations that may offer the clearest views of planetary conjunction between Saturn and the ...

Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

A new moon on Sunday, Jan. 18, means dark skies and some of the best stargazing conditions of the year. Here are the bright stars, constellations and objects to see.

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionised iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula ...

While it’s possible to see the nebula with the naked eye, it’s far more difficult to spot than closer deep-space sights like ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Many astronomical events, such as meteor showers, run by calendrical timings as well. But our moon and the other planets move ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...