Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...

The Lemon Slice Nebula (IC 3568) is a young planetary in Camelopardalis that serves as the poster child for symmetry.

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

The main-belt asteroid 3 Juno reached opposition yesterday afternoon, meaning it now lies directly opposite the Sun in our ...

The ephemeral remnants left behind by exploding stars are some of the most extraordinary objects visible to astronomers here ...

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

India’s Kutch region offers a combination of unique landscapes and dark skies.

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

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 astronomer Halton C. Arp (1927–2013) was a very well-known researcher of galaxies and other distant objects. He is ...

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