July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night ...

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

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 ...

The approximate location of the summer Milky Way is shown on the map, between the two white lines and within the 'Summer ... The Earth reaches its furthest point from the Sun along its slightly ...

Namely, it doesn’t clear its orbit of space junk. Criteria to define a planet ... Since then, these mysterious bursts coming from way beyond our Milky Way have been called fast radio bursts (FRBs). If ...

A new image from NASA composed of different wavelengths created a stunning image of Andromeda. “This new image of M31 is ...

Named for the pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation helped prove the existence of dark matter, the ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

A NASA satellite that had been inactive for almost sixty years surprised astronomers by sending a signal in June 2024.

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey to uncover dark matter, track asteroids, and build a detailed view of our ...