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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

Matter-antimatter asymmetry puzzles physicists. Learn how the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) may find answers.

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

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

SpaceX Starship Flight 10 is set to launch, aiming to refine objectives after previous anomalies, marking a pivotal moment ...