This free, AI-powered smartphone tool, developed by an astronomy educator, is designed to make astrophotography easy and ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the elusive zodiacal light. Caused by light reflecting and scattering off dust in the plane of our solar system, one of the best times to ...

The vast valleys of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck demonstrate the incredible forces that shaped the face of the Moon.

What if you could find binoculars big enough to qualify as small telescopes? Get ready for the BT–127XL–SD apochromatic ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

The lunar heart, created by the interplay of light and shadow, is visible once a month, just before our satellite reaches First Quarter.

We’re quickly losing sight of Saturn, but Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Uranus and Neptune are easy binocular objects. Mars is still at its best, having reached opposition last month.

As February begins, Venus appears low in the western evening sky. The brilliant planet stands nearly 15° high an hour after the Sun goes down and dominates the faint background stars of Pisces ...

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.

After passing through its New phase last week, the Moon is now a thin waxing crescent some 8 percent lit by sunset this evening. You can find it setting in the southwest as soon as the Sun goes ...