Red supergiant Antares, having just passed opposition on May 30, begins June low in the southeast at dusk. The morning ...

Astronomically speaking, June is laid back. No meteor showers of note, no eclipses and no bright comets are expected. But ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

Unleash your inner space nerd at these incredible late-night stargazing festivals, hosted across the U.S. national park system every summer.

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...

Stargazing begins by simply looking up, but these gadgets go a long way in unlocking the mysteries of the night sky. Get more ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

While the Milky Way is technically visible year-round, certain times offer better viewing opportunities — especially for ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Our field course series gives adults the chance to examine some really interesting subjects. Combining these unique topics ...

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years.