Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

The Fighting Dragons of Ara, also called the Rim Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6188, comprises dark, star-forming clouds and bright young suns.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after collecting 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of precious grains of dust and rock from the asteroid Bennu in 2020. While that sample return ...

Comet 24P/Schaumasse is roughly 10th magnitude, visible using optics or in astrophotos of the sky. Rising shortly before local midnight, Schaumasse is best seen in the early-morning hours — and with ...

East of Gemini, where the bright planet Jupiter has been demanding attention, is the constellation Cancer. Closer to the horizon and to the lower left of the Twins early in the evening as the ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters has provided the most precise distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies yet — and also has deepened a crisis in cosmology. The problem is ...

The object that would become known as both the Great January Comet of 1910 and the Daylight Comet was first seen Jan. 12 in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s unclear who precisely discovered it, but some ...

First-magnitude Saturn crosses into Pisces today, readily visible to the naked eye as the brightest light in the southwestern sky as it sinks slowly toward the horizon a few hours after sunset. You’ll ...

When the Huygens probe dropped into Titan’s atmosphere on Jan. 14, 2005, no one knew what to expect. For landings on Mars or the Moon, mission scientists plotted out landing sites with meticulous care ...

Voyager 1 has now traveled more than 16 billion miles (26 billion kilometers), drifting past Jupiter and Saturn on a long haul out of the solar system. And its incredible success helped pave the way ...

The trick is that M1 is also faint, requiring binoculars or a telescope to spot at magnitude 8.4. Through your optics, it will likely look like an oval-shaped gray smudge against the darker background ...

The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.