Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

Researchers Find Unique Rock Carving, Could Be One of the First Attempts by Human Civilizations to Depict Sky It seems that, ...

The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a local event or online on Monday ...

Perseid meteor shower will be most visible in the Northern Hemisphere from July 17 to August 24, with peak activity on August 12-13. Although the meteor shower can be seen all over the night sky, ...

The meteors are faint, so they won’t be visible if the moon is out. Observers in the Southern Hemisphere and southern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere will have the best odds of a good show.