The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

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Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term habitability.

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

After exploding, the craft sent blazing debris across the sky and forced multiple aircraft flying over and near the Caribbean ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and watch a close pairing of two naked-eye planets: Venus and Saturn. The ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.