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

Opposition means that Saturn is on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun. When an object is in opposition, it is at its ...

Skywatchers will have a special reason to look up Saturday night (Oct. 3) when the Jack C. Davis Observatory (JCDO) at Western Nevada College hosts a free Star Party on […] ...

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

Maps provide perspective but once we move from maps of Earth to a map of the galaxy, the Earth becomes almost vanishingly small and map projections lose their relevance. So perhaps we can consider per ...

I/ATLAS interstellar comet, first photographed from Mars orbit in October 2025, carries water ice with deuterium levels more ...

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

This month, you'll have twice the chances to view a meteor shower and your last chance of the year to see the core of the ...

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

Skywatchers can enjoy ever-longer nights, fall constellations, the Andromeda galaxy and the full hunter's moon in October.

October 2026 delivers an incredible lineup of stargazing highlights for night sky enthusiasts. The month begins with Saturn ...

Galaxies, which can host hundreds of billions of stars, originate from cold, dense gas found in the circumgalactic medium ...