Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

TRACERS launch paves the way for NASA to study magnetic reconnection and how solar activity affects near-Earth space.

Pazmino’s Cluster, or Stock 23, is a small open cluster in Camelopardalis that shines as a hidden gem for binoculars and ...

Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) was discovered by the LINEAR project in September 1999 and exhibited unusual behavior. Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope in July 2000 revealed a significant crustal ...

Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

Born on July 25, 1920, Chushiro Hayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in physics in 1942. After World ...

Betelgeuse companion discovery with Gemini North resolves century-old mystery and opens new doors in red supergiant research ...

New Moon means dark skies — and your chance to try photographing interstellar interloper 3I/ATLAS moving against the ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the first people to walk on the Moon splashdown back on Earth.

Perseus Moving Group, also known as the Alpha Persei Cluster, is a cluster of 500 stars, offering a glimpse of our Sun’s ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe the sky’s sixth-brightest open ...

Astronomers have found 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, a rare sednoid with a unique orbit that challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis.