The Elkins Park Skywatchers gathered for a watch party as the Artemis II mission began Wednesday night.

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at ...

Look up in April 2026 for Venus and Jupiter, the Lyrids peak, zodiacal light after the new moon, and a short window to catch ...

A group of scientists, including a class of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, has discovered the most ...

The awe-inducing Vera C. Rubin Observatory does not blink. From its sky-high altitude in the Chilean Andes, Rubin will image ...

Stargazers can enjoy unique views of Mercury, a planet parade, and the Zodiacal Light.

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see ...

Astronomy enthusiasts are my kinda people. Like me, they love all sorts of science, and science fiction, too — particularly films that lead us into a dystopian, mysterious, explorative future we can’t ...

One day, while I was looking at the credits for an attractive image on AstroBin, I noticed the camera listed was “Player One.” I wondered who that company was. As time went by, I saw similar credits ...

Description: In 1965, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory saw their Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 (LCS-1) launched into Earth orbit. It was an empty aluminum sphere and couldn't do any science of its own. But the ...

These are the familiar rhythms of the Vizag Astronomy Club’s ongoing moon watch sessions, a public initiative that has ...