I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes ...

If you can find a view low to the western horizon on Monday ... both will now disappear from the evening sky. As Venus and Mercury exit the stage, a few remnants of the "planetary parade" will be ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Seven planets are aligning in the night sky this week ... will only be visible for a few minutes after sunset, because the planets near the horizon — Saturn and Mercury — will be setting.

A space robot said "goodnight" to the moon as it completed its mission, capturing the first high-definition images of a lunar ...

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

Look west and see the sun set. Look east, the full moon rises. Seeing this phenomenon is impressive, but not unique, according to the Journal's astronomy expert, Kevin McKeown. In April, September, ...