In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evenings of August 12th and 13th to watch for rapid streaks of light crossing the sky. Those streaks occur when ...

In last week’s edition, we mistakenly reported that the USSF-106 mission was scheduled for August 10. On August 5, United ...

A massive explosion created a stellar jet bubble that collided with its own star's protoplanetary disk, revealing a harsher, more chaotic environment for planet formation ...

The Yerkes Future Foundation officially owns the historic Yerkes Observatory glass plates, securing a vital link between ...

Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.

Moving through western Aquarius, 89 Julia is visible all night and points the way to two bright Messier objects nearby.

Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible close to the ringed world today, along with several other of the planet’s brighter moons.

August’s Full Sturgeon Moon shines brightly in the sky tonight, showing off the rayed crater Tycho in the south.

The only person to fly to the Moon twice but never trod its surface had some amazing stories to tell. Originally published ...

Jim Lovell, the heroic commander of Apollo 13, was a part of several historic NASA missions and left an enduring legacy of ...

Proba-3 creates artificial solar eclipse to study Sun's corona. Two ESA satellites fly in precise formation to reveal the sun ...