May’s night sky is packed with celestial activity, offering stargazers a spectacular month of planetary pairings, ancient ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

Telescopes provide closeup views of Jupiter and its four largest moons discovered by Galileo, and of Mars. Although Mars is ...

tail formation can begin while a comet is still beyond the orbit of Saturn. The streams of material they leave behind linger long after their parent comet has headed back out of the solar system ...

Venus and Saturn will align with a crescent moon to create the illusion of a smiley face in the sky on the morning of April ...

Sorry to burst your astronomical bubble, but the claim that you'll see a full on smiley face in the sky is a tad exaggerated.