Rising around 7:30 P.M. local daylight time, Saturn reaches an altitude above 40° in the southeast by local midnight. Visible ...

Now is the best time to catch 145-mile-wide 3 Juno as it passes through a random collection of 9th- and 10th-magnitude stars.

Look east around 11 P.M. local daylight time, and you’ll see three bright stars forming a triangle — this is the famous Summer Triangle asterism, which flies high overhead in the middle of short ...

Dione crosses Saturn’s north pole, projecting its shadow onto the cloud tops as Tethys disappears into the planet’s shadow.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink's announcement is the first official U.S. acknowledgment of space-based weapons.

The Moon, Venus, Spica, and Mercury now all stand in a line tonight, but only if you’re quick — Mercury sets soon after the ...

Dark-sky sights take center stage as Saturn's moons dance and Venus mingles with the Moon in the sky this week.

Europe's Vega C lifts a pair of Earth-observation satellites from French Guiana, China targets five launches, and Russia ...

Three celestial objects form a triangle in the evening twilight as Venus and the crescent Moon hang with Virgo’s brightest ...

Uncover various deep-sky objects you can see this fall using a large telescope, including the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), the ...

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen will join Starmus VIII in Tenerife and La Palma, continuing a remarkable ...

HST celebrated its 36th birthday in space with a detailed look at the famous Trifid Nebula (M20), a dusty stellar nursery.