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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

August’s Full Sturgeon Moon shines brightly in the sky tonight, showing off the rayed crater Tycho in the south.

Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...