Modest binoculars or a small telescope are all you need to see the Beehive Star Cluster. Appearing as a circular patch of ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Astronomy fans got to see a planetary alignment in mid-April featuring Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. Stargazers will once again be treated to a planetary alignment in May, though not as big as ...

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

The Red Planet will meet a beautiful star cluster called the Beehive on Friday (May 2). Also known as M44, the cluster will ...

Scott Parazynski has been on five missions, and his favourite part is staring at the stars, moon and his home, planet Earth.

And Venus is putting on a brilliant show as the Morning Star, rising around 4am in the east. To its lower right – and 200 ...

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

California stargazers can view the most shooting stars after the moon sets around ... sky all month. The planet appears low in the east ahead of sunrise, according to the space agency.