Regarding the right ascensions and declinations of celestial objects for the purposes of amateur astronomy, some coordinates ...

The Moon could be the proving ground for humanity’s evolution, however, this new frontier raises complex legal questions.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

The Cat’s Eye is a young planetary, at perhaps 1,000 years. In part because of this, it shows the multiple stages of a ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a small galaxy, a loose aggregation of stars, and a satellite of the Milky Way. Its gravitational ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the ...

Sophisticated computational models let us examine objects such as supernova remnants in extraordinary detail and from every angle.

The solar system's smallest planet is quickly approaching superior conjunction, so catch it in the morning sky while you can.

It really depends on the higher levels of our atmosphere, but a lower dew point is a better starting point for good observing ...

A Full Flower Moon shines in the sky tonight from sunset to sunrise. This month's Full Moon appears smaller than usual, just ...

Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.