Today in the history of astronomy, the third asteroid is discovered – although astronomers aren’t calling it that yet.

Saturn and Neptune reach opposition, looking their best for the year. Jupiter and Venus shine bright before dawn, as does the ...

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

On Aug. 31, 1913, Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was born in England. When he was 15, a school trip to hear a lecture on ...

Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in West Virginia, Katherine Goble Johnson showed exceptional aptitude for mathematics from an early ...

SpaceX Starship achieves its first payload deployment, overcoming past failures and advancing the mission toward Mars ...

The ringed planet shows off several moons, Venus hangs with the Beehive, and Mercury passes Regulus in the sky this week.

The brightening Moon now sits to the left of Spica tonight, helping guide the way to Libra’s lovely double star, ...

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 ...

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

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

German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Wild Duck Cluster in 1681. Messier made it his 11th catalog entry May 30, ...