Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months ...

Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...

Those who know me understand my lifelong passion for looking to the stars and the myriad of celestial wonders hidden within the nighttime skies. A lot of that began when I was just eight years old.

This event is linked to Halley’s comet, and occurs as another comet, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, remains visible. But a nearly full ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also known by its catalog designation C/2023 A3, is now magnitude 2.2 in the morning sky. But if you ... Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will move ...

In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor Jodi Foster) takes a space-alien-built wormhole ride to the star Vega ...

the Moon during this span of dates will be in the eastern sky while the comet is in the west. Good luck, and send your photos to readergallery@astronomy.com — we’ll feature the best ones on ...

The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief. By Dennis Overbye The Pentagon needs what the company offers to compete with China even as it frets over its potential for dominance and the ...

As night descended in an ecological park in central Mexico, tiny stars appeared in the sky one by one, aligning into ...

Any day now, our night sky will host a guest star ... going to go off — it's very obvious," Edward Sion, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Villanova University in Pennsylvania ...

Astronomers study this light to learn about the formation of the universe and the nature of the cosmos. Talk starts at 7:30 PM, but astronomy-lovers are invited to mix and mingle before the lecture ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the ...