Stargazers in the U.S. will find the waxing gibbous moon above the southwestern horizon as the sun sets on July 3, with Spica ...

Stargazers in the U.S. can see Venus rising around 3 a.m. local time, with the Pleiades star cluster visible as a smudge of ...

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 27.

This meant that, feasibly, light from the star that reached Earth during the 1933 fair was emitted around the first time Chicago was home to such a spectacle. (Now, astronomers know Arcturus is 36 ...

What is the bright star in the east right now? Venus, the bright "Morning Star," shines brilliantly in the pre-dawn sky this weekend, close to a much dimmer Saturn.

N79 is a 1,630-light-year-wide region containing three distinct molecular cloud complexes. Captured here by JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is one of those regions, N79 South.

It involves a bright planet passing by a large and diffuse star cluster visible with the naked eye. On the evening of June 13, 2023, I went out as twilight faded to observe the conjunction of ...