The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...

A rare celestial event is set to captivate skywatchers in January 2025, when six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

On January 21, a celestial event will unfold in the night sky, captivating stargazers across the United States, Canada, and ...

A parade of planets is set to be visible in the night sky this week and was once viewed as 'an omen from the gods' of ...

From exhibitions to events, the Science Museum of Virginia is offering numerous ways for guests to engage with science, ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

SpaceX dominates this week’s launch manifest with three Falcon 9 missions and the seventh flight of its Starship rocket. The ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s called a planetary parade. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the naked eye in January and for part of February.

Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...