New Moon brings excellent dark-sky conditions for observing galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters in the sky this week.

This week is the best time in May to view the night sky. Here's everything you can see during May's dark skies, from an ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

Because of light pollution, 80% of U.S. residents typically can’t see the Milky Way, according to LiveScience.com, a science news publication. The galaxy’s bright core will be easier to see and higher ...

Despite what you may believe, the brightest star in the night sky isn't the North Star, although it's probably the most ...

Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...

China has launched over 100 satellites for two broadband networks that could eventually rival the service from Elon Musk's ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken some truly amazing pictures of stars, galaxies, and distant parts of space. These ...

This image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the locations of various elements in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green), and iron ...

Planetarium and Program Coordinator Katy Downing of the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center shares the visible planets and ...

Of all the constellations we see through the year, Virgo the Virgin is the second-largest. The only problem is that it’s also ...