To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk through any telescope. On July 4, the far brighter planet Venus will pass ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? July holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...

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

Scientists were initially given less than a week to prepare for the loss of microwave observations that are key in detecting ...

Just a few hours ago, Viktor Orban went live and spoke with Tibor Kapu, the second Hungarian astronaut. This is Earth, ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is still doing fresh things, even after close to two decades of service, shown by a new ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

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

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...