Stargazers in the U.S. can see Venus rising around 3 a.m. local time, with the Pleiades star cluster visible as a smudge of ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Look east before sunrise on Saturday to catch bright Venus and the Pleiades star cluster in a beautiful early-morning ...

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

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

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

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 ...

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

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

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

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 ...