A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent ...

NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...

You can catch meteor showers and a special lunar display early this week, and keep an eye out for the popular Perseids ...

Betelgeuse needs no introduction. Besides having its name borrowed by the ghost with the most, this 10-million-year-old red ...

The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 3285B, which resides 137 million light-years ...

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

Reaching their full glory on the same day this week are the Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids meteor showers.

The latter half of July is soaked in the celestial with an astounding three meteor showers lighting up the sky ...

Constellations are funny things, and beginner stargazers have so many misconceptions about them. Some novices believe that constellations are fanciful ...

The urban astronomy movement #PopScope has set up telescopes on sidewalks that have brought 26,000 people closer to the night ...

Summer evening skies are the home of some classic constellations. One of them is Scorpius the Scorpion, the 10th-brightest ...

The young open cluster NGC 6709 soars through the sky tonight, visible in Aquila with binoculars or any telescope.