Jupiter reaches opposition; meanwhile, the star Canopus shines bright and the constellation Pictor offers many gems to view.

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. We just lack the means to measure its effects on solar ...

Jupiter reaches a stunning opposition, Mars is brilliant, Saturn and Venus light the evening sky, and Mercury rises before ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Moon passing by Saturn on the evening of December 7. Both objects at ...

In 1986 and 1989, Voyager 2 made the final two stops on its grand tour of the outer solar system when it swept by Uranus and Neptune, respectively. Now, nearly 40 years later, the archive of data ...

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Transits, occultations, eclipses, and shadow transits of the jovian moons are perfect events for telescopic viewing.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows off its infrared capabilities once again in new imaging of the well-known ...

Within the next decade, the agency believes its commercial partners can develop vehicles to land a lunar rover and habitat on ...

The Moon also offers a handy site for an offworld seed repository of Earth’s plant life, much like the Svalbard Global Seed ...