The Southern delta Aquariids and alpha Capricornids are set to peak on the same night later this month. Here’s how you can ...

The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

The meteors are faint, so they won’t be visible if the moon is out. Observers in the Southern Hemisphere and southern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere will have the best odds of a good show.

A rare astronomical sight is unfolding in the southern sky. Two exploding stars are shining so brightly that both can be viewed with the naked eye.

It doesn't happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar ...

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a local event or online on Monday ...

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The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star Antares in the constellation Scorpius on the night of June 9. As a red supergiant, Antares boasts a diameter 700 times greater than our sun ...