The bright point of light appearing in the eastern sky in the early evening is Saturn. The ringed planet is approaching its closest point to Earth on Oct. 4. This is the planet’s opposition, meaning i...

Why do people call it that? Before the invention of electric lighting, farmers could use the light of the full moon to help harvest their crops.

Europa Clipper is heading toward us now and will get closer throughout the fall until it passes Earth on Dec. 3, 2026 at a distance of about 2,000 miles.

Now that summer is ending, Jupiter is emerging in the morning sky before dawn. To see it you will need to find a spot with a good view of the eastern sky.

is designed to have a wide field so that it can scan large parts of the sky at once. Its field of view is 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope and 10 times larger than the Webb Space Teles...

There are six planets above the horizon before dawn right now. But not all of these are visible to the naked eye.

Fifty-seven years ago this week the crew of Apollo 11 first touched down in the mare named the Sea of Tranquility.

The space agencies of Japan and China recently sent spacecraft to visit two asteroids, and last week, they arrived.

To see the moon and Saturn together in the sky, face east after 2 a.m. Tuesday.

NASA engaged Katalyst Space to build a robotic spacecraft to rendezvous with the Swift Observatory and then boost it to a higher orbit.

This week the moon returns to the evening sky, and it will glide past Venus, Jupiter and Mercury.

The two brightest planets in the sky, Venus and Jupiter, have a very nice conjunction this week, passing within 1.5 degrees of each other.

The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a nebula around a dying star. Known as Nebula PMR 1, it is 5,000 light years away from us in the southern constellation of Vela.

After a trip around Mars, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is headed to observe the Psyche asteroid.

This week the moon returns to the evening sky. It will pass by Venus and Jupiter over the next couple of days.

The planets Saturn and Mars have been lurking low in the morning sky for weeks, but their low altitude has made them difficult to view. Now finally these two planets are beginning to emerge from the morning twilight.

Keep an eye on Venus: as the weeks go by, the planet continues to climb. Meanwhile, Jupiter is sinking in the western sky.

As you gaze up to the stars, remember that there are three spacecraft enroute to Jupiter.

Although Comet Thatcher is far out in the solar system, the dust it left behind continues to orbit the sun and Earth passes through this debris every year in late April.

In 1859, the French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted that peculiarities in Mercury’s orbit were the result of the gravitational influence of a nearby planet. He called it Vulcan, an appropriate name for a fiery planet thought to lurk inside Mercury’s orbit. Astronomers searched for this ninth planet for decades and there were several claims... Read more »

The first comet discovered this year is named Comet MAPS using the initials of the amateur astronomers who discovered it.

To see the moon and Jupiter together, face the southwest sky and look for Jupiter to the left of the moon.

That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

The 'evening star' is creeping into the sky this week. If you want to view Venus, start looking after 7:30 p.m. If you miss it, don't worry. It will be in view for some time.

If you didn’t get to see the lunar eclipse on Tuesday morning due to the poor weather, we do have some additional opportunities to view eclipses this year Our next similar celestial event comes in August. This will be a major solar eclipse on the other side of the Atlantic. During the eclipse, the moon’s... Read more »

The third month of the year begins with a lunar eclipse. Here on the east coast we will at least get to see part of the eclipse, beginning at 4:50 a.m. March 3.

If you were not able to view the planets and the moon last week. You get another chance this week. If you were not able to view the planets and the moon last week. You get another chance this week. Th...

We have a nice display of planets happening in the winter sky. As previously mentioned, both Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in our solar system, are visible in the early evening. Jupiter ...

Comet 2026 A1 was found by a group of amateur astronomers using a set of four telescopes automatically scanning the skies from Chile.

This month in addition to Venus, Mercury will be making one of its brief appearances in the western sky. Like Venus, it is low in the sky after sunset. The

For the first time in more than 53 years NASA will launch humans to the moon.

If you scan the Milky Way with binoculars, you will find it rich in stars, star clusters and nebula.

Although Venus is reappearing in the evening sky after sunset now — it is way down near the horizon. Trees and buildings will likely block your view.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) celebrated its 4th anniversary in space on Dec. 25. Its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), will amazingly celebrate its 36th year in space next April. Meanwhile, engineers have finished building another amazing spacecraft that will soon join NASA’s fleet of space observatories. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope... Read more »

One of the major projects for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is probing the “Cosmic Dawn” — the earliest parts of the universe’s history. Indeed

If you want to vicariously travel with them to the moon, NASA has an opportunity for the public to send their name to lunar orbit during this mission.

Sky watchers have seen meteors coming out of the constellation Gemini since the early 19th Century, but they weren’t recognized as an annual meteor shower until the 1870s.

The full moon of December occurs on the 4th. This is often known as the Long Night Moon due to its proximity to the Winter Solstice.

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Nov. 13. The cargo was a pair of identical spacecraft headed to Mars. Nicknamed Blue and Gold, these small spacecraft are part of NASA’s Escap...