A rare lunar occultation, fading crescent moon, and an interstellar visitor make for a memorable week of stargazing in ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

As the Moon reaches New, advanced observers can try photographing 3I/ATLAS while everyone can enjoy nebulae and more in the ...

The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...