May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

Ready for a sky full of cosmic wonders? From the Moon-Jupiter conjunction on May 16th to Mercury’s evening debut on May 22nd, this week’s sky is packed. Watch Mars glide through the Beehive Cluster, ...

The best telescopes for kids that we recommend are not toys but usable instruments, based on how easy they are to use for younger astronomers who want to gaze at the heavens.

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

HERE’S a question: do you know what happens to pee in space? If yes, urine with a chance of nailing this quiz. If not, you ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 2Asteroid 4 Vesta reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EDT this ...

Far to its lower right is the Pleiades star cluster (M45), an easy naked-eye object, particularly with no moonlight to interfere ... Also visible is Saturn, although the ringed planet is ...

Because it’s so large and so bright, this galaxy is an easy target even ... in the evening sky! Saturn’s disk is 16” across, wreathed in the planet’s lovely rings, which stretch 36 ...

And no greatness ... but realistic Saturn in the “more is more” ninth house imbues you with a sense of grounded optimism. Life might actually imitate a three-ring circus for you, Leo, one ...