If you want to check sky conditions before heading out, use our interactive satellite map to see if clouds may impact your view. Each planet varies in brightness, measured in magnitude. The lower (or ...

Dury's efforts were rewarded with a stunning panoramic view of the night sky containing seven ... light from the dimmer planets. Dury then matched with plain sphere maps to confirm their position.

from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can ...

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1 ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

NASA is set to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope that will create the most precise and colorful map of the universe. This telescope will capt ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

The massive annual spring migration of America's birds – millions of them – is underway. Here's how to follow along at home.