Venus shines bright after sunset, the giant planets rise before midnight, and Mars shines before dawn. Plus, catch Comet ...

The “ring of fire” eclipse of 2024 was a spectacular celestial event — and Dave Eicher saw it from an equally spectacular setting.

An algorithm that detects streaks of light in telescope images could help to counter a growing threat to astronomy.

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...

My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead. This coming week includes a naked-eye comet ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Two astronauts — one ...

New research on WASP-107b reveals how strange this planet's atmosphere is, experiencing perpetual night on one side ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

Oct. 10-12: The comet will appear in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere shortly after sunset, very low in the western sky ...

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

Comet C/2023 A3 is expected to surge in brightness, caused by forward scattering of sunlight by cometary dust grains, around ...