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

It doesn't happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar ...

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

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 ...

Based on nearby places, archaeologists believe they have found a star map dating back to the Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age ...

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.

On a cool October evening, long after most birds have roosted, a living cloud rises from the wheat fields of southeastern ...

In a landmark moment for modern astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first-ever test images, and they’re ...

World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...