The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

In space news: the SpaceX rocket blew up again,” Astronomy Club president Mia Bridges ’25 said. The club members scattered in Small Hall 122 nodded attentively. One person laughed. The College of ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly The moonrise and moonset ... The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M. local time from the same location. Monday, March 17 The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...

"We've detected thousands of these planets and most by indirect means—in other words, not directly through the light they emit," said John Monnier, a U-M professor of astronomy and leader of the ...

At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Wednesday night (March 12). A Falcon 9 rocket ...

Harold Kozak will talk about the moon's origin and lead the stargazing event on Wednesday. Then, view the eclipse on Friday.

Watch live as a total lunar eclipse flushes the moon red across the Western Hemisphere. The Earth will cast a shadow that ...