For millennia, the way we found our way home has been using the stars. The tech we have sent towards those stars also uses ...

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.