The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

The celestial object described is an open cluster, NGC 7789, possessing an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and located between 5th-magnitude Sigma Cassiopeiae and 6th-magnitude Rho Cas, known by several ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

Proximate to the Moon, Regulus (Alpha Leonis), exhibiting an apparent magnitude of 1.3, will be visible. The angular separation between the Moon and Regulus is expected to change on an hourly basis.

Asteroids, characterized by their "starlike" telescopic appearance, are rocky celestial bodies predominantly found in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, though a significant subset known as ...

Mercury is currently observable as a bright –0.6 magnitude object in the predawn sky, though its visibility is rapidly decreasing as it approaches superior conjunction in late January. Optimal ...