Asteroid 44 Nysa may be just past opposition, but it’s still placed perfectly for evening viewing in Cancer the Crab. Wait until a few hours after sunset, when Cancer is high in the eastern sky, and ...

On Tuesday, February 17, an annular eclipse of the Sun will occur. Here’s the catch, though: It will only be visible as annular along a thin line in Antarctica. From the southern tips of Chile and ...

Earth and Mars are constantly moving, but don’t stay a constant distance apart. Plus, spacecraft don’t travel in a straight line to their destination.

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life. Amino acids are the molecules ...

Visible in Scorpius before dawn, our waning satellite is close to the 3rd-magnitude star Pi (π) Scorpii and less than 8° from Antares, the Scorpion’s bright red heart. The Moon will pass 0.7° south of ...

Last Quarter Moon occurs at 7:43 A.M. EST on Monday, February 9. This phase is best viewed in the early-morning hours; early risers can catch it before dawn, and our satellite remains visible in the ...

This faraway, ancient ball of stars may have been captured from another galaxy that passed too close to the Milky Way.

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You can use this sparkling star to point your way to the open cluster M47 in ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

With the waning Moon rising later and later, there’s a dark window between sunset and moonrise to get in some deep-sky observing. Tonight we’re seeking out M106, a great galaxy to observe with your ...