The Draconid meteor shower starts on Monday, Oct. 6. Here's what you need to know about when it starts, peaks and ends.

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Astronomers have captured the most detailed view yet of a red supergiant star just before it exploded, hidden beneath layers ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

On the evening of Oct. 9, a waning gibbous moon visits the famous Pleiades Star Cluster  — the Seven Sisters  — in Taurus.

Don't fret, though. The Orionids meteor shower, which began on Sept. 26, will peak around the time of the new moon on Tuesday, Oct. 21, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At its peak, ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer.

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

As an astrophotographer and night-sky enthusiast, I’ve endured my fair share of inaccurate weather forecasts. But this ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

The October full moon will arrive early next week. It will be the first ‘supermoon’ since November last year - meaning it will be especially large and bright - and comes as the first of three.