Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

Today in the history of astronomy, an infrared view opens up the universe.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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