The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.

Nearly five-month mission concludes as agency continues its human presence on the International Space Station.

Today in the history of astronomy, the forerunner of the National Air and Space Museum is created.

It’s a busy morning! Look for Perseid meteors as you catch a conjunction of bright Jupiter and Venus before dawn.

In last week’s edition, we mistakenly reported that the USSF-106 mission was scheduled for August 10. On August 5, United ...

The Yerkes Future Foundation officially owns the historic Yerkes Observatory glass plates, securing a vital link between ...

Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evenings of August 12th and 13th to watch for rapid streaks of light crossing the sky. Those streaks occur when ...

A massive explosion created a stellar jet bubble that collided with its own star's protoplanetary disk, revealing a harsher, more chaotic environment for planet formation ...

Moving through western Aquarius, 89 Julia is visible all night and points the way to two bright Messier objects nearby.

Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible close to the ringed world today, along with several other of the planet’s brighter moons.

Mountain ranges, volcanic plains, and lots of craters make the Moon a target you’ll return to again and again.