You can credit Earth’s atmosphere with providing an orangish color to the Moon during an eclipse. The atmosphere acts like a ...

A recent story in The Planetary Science Journal reported that scientists at the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and colleagues have produced the first global map ...

In July 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a “bit of scruff” in the radio data she was receiving at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Together with her Ph.D. advisor Antony Hewish, she zeroed ...

In the latest delay for the Artemis 2 mission, NASA announced on Saturday that it will roll the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) as ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is currently in Taurus, located roughly 5° south-southwest of the Pleiades star cluster (M45). Glowing at magnitude 5.8, the ice giant requires binoculars or a ...

Mars’ moons are easily visible at night from the Red Planet. Larger Phobos is brighter, while smaller Deimos is still brighter than any star.

A wonderful celestial event known as a total lunar eclipse will occur in the skies above North America during the morning ...

New Moon occurs at 7:01 A.M. EST, bringing an annular solar eclipse to Antarctica and part of the Southern Ocean. Only travelers in these regions will see the Moon cover nearly all of the Sun’s disk, ...

Lurking in the southwestern corner of Aquarius the Water-bearer, globular cluster M72 doesn’t stand out. At magnitude 9.4, it ranks among the dimmest globulars Charles Messier included in his ...

A few days ago, longtime Astronomy magazine contributor Chris Schur sent me the image you see here. It shows the famous Double Cluster in Perseus, also known as NGC 869 and NGC 884. Most images of ...

A groundbreaking new study using artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray ...

The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter at 9 P.M. EST. The pair shares the central regions of Gemini this evening, with the Moon appearing to the upper left of Jupiter, and framed on the left by the Twins ...