I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

February's full Snow Moon will have a royal companion as it rises alongside Regulus, a star nicknamed "Heart of the Lion", ...

February's full Moon is known as the Snow Moon, after the heavy snowfall often associated with this time of year in the ...