In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and view brilliant Venus. The planet, which is only outshone by the Sun or the Moon, will lie low in the ...

The photo of a 9.5-light-year-long cloud within the Eagle Nebula celebrates the space telescope’s upcoming 35th birthday.

The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud of fast-moving hydrogen gas.

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

The company is developing a commercial replacement for the ISS, currently planned to be retired at the end of the decade.

Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is a young galaxy shining just 330 million years after the Big Bang, signaling it's part of a process ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

In a preliminary budget proposal, the agency’s science programs would see a 50 percent reduction, with a 20 percent cut to ...

[Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, March 19, 2025] — Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan was awarded the prestigious Hawking Medal for Science Communication at the Starmus Festival, sharing the ...

Questions remain about the Shift4 CEO and civilian astronaut’s priorities for the space agency, who recently laid out his ...