Open star clusters sparkle as Luna and Venus line up and Jupiter’s moons jockey for position in the sky this week.

The findings reveal that the inner disk touching the young star is extraordinarily hot, challenging conventional ...

The PRIMA space telescope would observe the cosmos in far-infrared light, while AXIS would be an orbiting X-ray detector.

A planetary parade consisting of six planets, with a seventh to join, will be visible from the end of January 2025.

As darkness falls, Jupiter, nearing its biggest and brightest for 2024 rises north of due east and remains on display ...

Astronomers at UC Berkeley have identified mysterious Earth-sized spots at Jupiter’s poles with rapid life cycles.

Maj. Christopher N. Shingledecker, assistant professor of chemistry at Virginia Military Institute, is a member of a research ...

Since it came online in the summer of 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed some of the most distant and ancient ...

Jupiter shines brightly in the east around 7 p.m. right now. Our solar system’s largest planet is nicely placed between the horns of Taurus, the Bull.

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...

Since the first modern SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) studies tried to detect alien transmissions in the ...