An international team including UNIGE observed with the JWST huge clouds of helium escaping from the exoplanet Wasp-107b.

December for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Geminids meteor shower, as Greg Redern highlights in December’s ...

As the final month of the year begins, early evenings offer just one naked-eye planet. Fortunately for us, that lone world is Saturn. The ringed planet lies high in the northwest as twilight fades, ...

On Nov. 2, 2000, the crew of NASA’s Expedition 1 opened the hatch to the International Space Station, which was the beginning ...

Dennis Herrmann developed a life-long interest in astronomy at an early age and got his first telescope at the age of 12.

Dec. 3 – The nearly full moon hides members of the Seven Sisters (Pleiades) star cluster between about 7 and 9 p.m. CST.

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

If, however, you want to go a step further and observe wildlife from further afield, you could consider a spotting scope ...

Currently there is a third “interstellar interloper” now passing through the solar system designated as 3i/ATLAS, for the ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch between autumn 2026 and May 2027, is already surprising scientists ...

When a faint green smudge appeared in images from a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 22, 2025, astronomers did not expect it to upend basic assumptions about how comets work. Yet ...

As twilight deepens the week of November 24 to 28, the waxing crescent moon appears in the south to southwest, above the setting Teapot asterism.