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

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

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

The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...

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

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

The shining Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) in Hydra checks almost every box an amateur astronomer could desire.

The company’s New Shepard rocket launched celebrities and four others to the edge of space and back on April 14, 2025.

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

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...