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

I stepped on deck for HMB Endeavour’s voyage from Hobart to Sydney, the return leg of the ship’s first outing on the open sea ...

Each meteoroid is smaller than a grain of sand, but they’re moving at over ... sky the better. On May 5 and 6, the moon sets at around 3am and will be more than half full, so it will light up the sky ...

In the heart of Florida’s backwoods, where alligators outnumber tourists and GPS signals go to die, stands a gleaming castle made entirely of discarded aluminum printing plates. Solomon’s Castle in ...

A celestial leap is set to take place over two nights as the moon and Jupiter will appear to dance near to each other in the night sky.

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

Starting tonight and continuing for two weeks, we can watch the moon travel from just past new moon all the way to full moon.

In order to find the ancient Three Leaps of the Gazelle asterism you must first locate the Big Dipper, which is high in the ...

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

It’s a busy month for Mars and the moon—not to mention the Eta Aquariid meteor shower. Here’s what to watch for, and when.

The rare celestial display known as a “triple conjunction” occurs in astronomy when three celestial bodies appear very close together in the night sky ... was a full Moon on April 13 and ...