With so many things flying around in the sky, it’s hard to tell what you’re seeing sometimes as stars, satellites and aircraft take up the night sky.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

A dazzling display of the Milky Way and a beautiful shot of Chanctonbury Ring are among the winners of this year’s astrophotography competition. This year broke a record since the contest’s inception ...

There's a variety of astronomical events in 2025 well worth planning a trip around this year—whether that means driving to ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, will gain "maximum brilliance" at night on Valentine's Day across Kentucky skies ...

France’s Landes de Gascogne Regional Natural Park has been officially designated as an International Dark Sky Reserve, recognizing the collective efforts of the region.

Cambridge Schools have always been at the forefront of fostering intellectual curiosity and scientific temper among its ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...