NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just ...

The effect of parallax, the shifting of nearer stars relative to those farther away as Earth travels around the Sun, is negligible — the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, only appears to move 0.77 ...

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Here's everything you need to know to see the moon as it occults, or passes completely in front of, the bright planet Saturn tonight.

Italian Daniele Borsari was named Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year for this image of the California Nebula, NGC 1499 in the constellation of Perseus. It’s located at a distance of about ...