Maffei 1 and 2 are faint, dust-obscured galaxies near the Milky Way—discovered in 1967 and challenging targets for deep-sky ...

Catch the solar system’s largest planet satellite sharing the constellation Gemini the Twins with our Moon this morning ...

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the journey!

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

The loose open cluster NGC 7243 makes it worth learning the location of Lacerta the Lizard, now visible in the evening sky.

Explore the Soul Nebula (IC 1848), a star-forming region in Cassiopeia. Learn its clusters and why it's a favorite for ...

NGC 6231 is the sky's sixth-brightest open star cluster. It's located in the Scorpius constellation. Amateur astronomers call ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Though it’s dimmest at eastern elongation, Iapetus may be visible this morning. Give it a try and enjoy Saturn’s brighter moons as well.

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

The solar system’s smallest planet comes to a standstill in the evening sky before starting its retrograde motion for the ...