The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, is a visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark cloud of dust and gas in the constellation ...

The Orion Nebula, a nursery for new stars, is showcased in this breathtaking image, with young stars and protostars shining ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Solar masses are a unit of measurement used in astronomy to express the mass of other celestial objects in comparison to the ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

February's Full Moon, known as the "Snow Moon," will be at its brightest on February 12, 2025, at 7:23 PM IST. This celestial ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

The image shows the Arches star cluster, 25,000 light-years away, captured through infrared observations from Hubble and ground-based telescopes. This Hubble image shows NGC 6397, a star cluster 8,200 ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

From planets and constellations, to eclipses and the Aurora Borealis, here's what to look for in the sky this spring ...