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With our satellite half-lit, several features stand out for easy observing tonight, including dark seas and bright craters.
Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.
Neptune and Saturn appear together in a telescope as Mars passes a star in Virgo and Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the ...
Join astronomer Patrick Moore and Queen's Brian May as they observe the 2004 transit of Venus in a newly released film. Watch ...
Morning and evening observers can catch shooting stars from both the Southern Delta Aquariids’ peak and the ramp-up of the ...
There's so much more to see than the famous Messier Catalog. Here's a list of gorgeous NGC star clusters to observe on the ...
Today in the history of astronomy, the U.S. scores a win in the Space Race.
Signs of life on K2-18 b are revisited as a new NASA-led study finds no conclusive evidence for dimethyl sulfide, tempering ...
Dwingeloo 1, a barred spiral galaxy about 10 million light-years away, is so obscured, it wasn't discovered until 1994.
There's so much more to Andromeda than its eponymous galaxy. Here's a list of other targets to observe in the Princess.
Today in the history of astronomy, Galileo is confused by his observations of Saturn.
Vesta is passing an 8th-magnitude field star, offering a great opportunity to see the space rock’s motion on the sky over just a few nights.