Asteroid 4 Vesta stands near a background star in the evening sky, creating a temporary artificial double star to enjoy.

Today in the history of astronomy, an eclipse isn’t the only stunning thing in the sky.

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

John Glenn grew up in Ohio and joined the Marine Corps in 1943. He flew 59 combat missions in World War II and 63 in the ...

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

As the Moon reaches New, advanced observers can try photographing 3I/ATLAS while everyone can enjoy nebulae and more in the ...

Axiom Mission 4 returns to Earth after 18 days aboard the ISS, marking historic firsts for India, Poland, and Hungary in human spaceflight.

New findings about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal its surprising size, possible thick disk origin, and what makes it ...

We still get transits of Titan’s shadow across Saturn for a few more months — catch this one early in the morning.

The solar system’s smallest planet comes to a standstill in the evening sky before starting its retrograde motion for the ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

Low-mass stars like our Sun expel their outer layers as a planetary nebula because of what is going on in the star’s core as ...