A thin crescent Moon appears in the evening sky, visible for a short time after sunset in the constellation Virgo, near Mars ...

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 ...

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

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

A Black Moon leaves the skies dark for deep-sky observing, then a waxing crescent moves through Virgo and hangs with Mars.

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

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

A century from now, a pair of spacecraft might boldly go where no human-made object has gone before: a black hole. Here's how ...

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

A study published in The Astrophysical Journal reveals that the third planet from the star TRAPPIST-1 does not have an ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

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