A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out a bit later in the evening this time of year to see the Milky Way. Be sure to go out before the Moon comes up.

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Women have long contributed meaningful scientific discoveries to the field of astronomy; however, men have primarily dominated the vocation. As of 2019, women earn about 40 percent of the Ph.D.s ...

Take a peek at the early-morning duo of Saturn and Neptune, rising together in Pisces around 2:30 A.M. local daylight time. By 4 A.M. local daylight time they are some 15° high, with blazing ...

"This discovery could indicate a new type of physics or new models of stellar evolution." One of the strangest cosmic objects ever seen just got even weirder — NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope ...

Richard Bond, a University Professor in the David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics and the department of physics in the Faculty of Arts & Science and professor at the Canadian ...

The world is overflowing with crazily-named deep-sky objects. However, I am guilty of one such naming, many years ago, in Astronomy and Deep Sky magazines — the Owl Cluster, NGC 457, in Cassiopeia.

Astronomy Day is an annual event in which professionals invite the community to come learn more about space. This Saturday, May 3, several West Michigan observatories are hosting events allowing ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out the evening of May 5 to see Mars close to the Beehive Cluster in the constellation Cancer the Crab. In fact ...

In a Fox News interview, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said humans could be flown to Mars in ‘20 to 30 years.’ Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press SpaceX is shifting personnel and resources to its ...

Question: How does the Cincinnati Observatory qualify as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy?" Answer: The Cincinnati Observatory is known as ‘The Birthplace of American Astronomy’ because ...