Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian astronomer after research revealed she was the first woman at the ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the +0.6-magnitude planet is low in the west-northwest and sets during twilight about 1.5 ...

Astronomers describe Mercury as an "inferior planet", because its orbital path around the sun is much closer than that of ...

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian woman astronomer whose pioneering work at the University of Cambridge has been uncovered more than 100 years later.

At the time of this writing, June 23, Jupiter was about half a degree left of the afternoon Sun and due to pass behind it ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky ...

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...