Ruddy planet Mars is just under 3° south of the twin suns that make up the double star Porrima in Virgo this evening.

Today's New Moon is also called a Black Moon, as it is the third in a string of four New Moons in a single astronomical ...

Although faint, Comet Wierzchoś can be picked up by larger scopes as it passes near the planetary nebula NGC 6058 this ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

Targeted SETI approach listens for alien radio 'spillover' during planetary alignments, using Earth's deep space ...

The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

This newly discovered explosion reveals the inner workings of a dying star.

One of the last few Titan shadow transits of the year takes place overnight tonight, with several of Saturn’s other moons ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the outbreak of WWI derails eclipse research.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

The tiny planet Mercury stands 19° west of the Sun in the early-morning sky, located in Cancer near the Beehive Cluster.