Wednesday, February 5 First Quarter Moon occurs at 3:02 A.M. EST. Nearly half a day later, the Moon passes 5° north of Uranus ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Look to the southwest sky after sunset on Saturday, as the sliver of a waxing crescent moon nears bright Venus with Saturn ...

The current version of each Starlink satellite weighs 573 lbs. (260 kilograms) and is, according to Sky & Telescope magazine, roughly the size of a table. Rather than sending internet signals ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long time.

Through a telescope, Mars' disk spans 14 ... is brought to you in part by Celestron. The post The Sky This Week from January 24 to 31: The Moon mingles with Antares appeared first on Astronomy ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

Or as Senior Editor of Sky & Telescope magazine, Alan MacRobert once noted: "Watching the moon cover or uncover bright stars gives a visceral sense of the moon's orbital motion. Try it!" ...

As soon as it gets dark, two bright lights become visible—the brightest in the southwest and an almost-as-bright light in the east. What are they?

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Then at some point, you get a telescope. It’s a cheap one so it ... Then I moved house and suddenly my view of the sky was less than it was prior. That scope still lies in my garden shed ...