October offers stargazers a packed calendar. Plus, a conversation about colliding planets and disappearing stars with a UW ...

When I look at the moon, for some reason, I am reminded of my son's sleeping face from that day.My wife passed away early, ...

Stop everything. Forget your worries about the everyday. Because a cosmic spectacle, a celestial dance of unimaginable scale, ...

Saturn reaches opposition this month, Neptune lingers near Saturn, Mars transits the Beehive, and Jupiter is occulted by the ...

As autumn settles over the UK, there is something quietly magical about stargazing. Crisp air and early darkness come hand in ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

The solar system’s most distant planet is now at opposition and looking its best. Search it out after dark using optical aid.

The fact that the Sun (a star) is at the center of the solar system was just a coincidence | The Sun can also wobbleThe Sun ...

Stargazers in the Kansas City area have a chance to catch one of the solar system’s most recognizable planets this weekend.

For October 2026, the moon rises at midnight, half lit at last quarter moon on October 3. The waning crescent moon passes ...

Astronomers using data from the Euclid space telescope have discovered an exceptionally faint stellar system near the Fornax ...

This month brings two meteor showers, an eerie orange-tinted full moon, and one of the year’s last chances to glimpse the Milky Way’s luminous core.