But for the best experience, you better make sure you choose binoculars that are actually designed for astronomy. Below, we've rounded up everything you need to know about how to choose binoculars.

For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus, Mars ...

Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images Print Collector Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging. Think of how hard it is to estimate the distance of someone pointing a ...

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Subscribe today. Last year was a dream for astronomy enthusiasts like me, with brilliant low-latitude auroras, a total solar eclipse, and a bright comet that was easily visible to the naked eye.

If the stellar contender is traveling at more than 1.3 million mph (2.1 million km/h), it will have a sufficient escape velocity to one day leave the Milky Way and drag its planetary companion ...

On a large scale, the universe is like a complex spider web, full of cosmic filaments of gas, dust and dark matter, separated by large voids. Now, in a remarkable new image, researchers captured ...

There are thousands upon thousands of questions related to the topic of astronomy, from the basics of the science to the complexities of the distant cosmos. Here are just 40 such questions that we ...