Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Moon as it closely passes the Ringed Planet on the evening of ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we ...

During the solar system’s early days, the inner part near us was battered by countless ... in the pages of Deep Sky and Astronomy magazines. The constellation Cassiopeia is chock-full of great ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

NASA has identified nine locations near the Moon’s south pole for the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17.

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe one of the most famous deep-sky objects, the Andromeda Galaxy, also known ...

Researchers have spotted a promising but puzzling candidate for one of the lightest black holes ever detected.

Gliese 229 B, discovered in 1995, is a binary system of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other, in orbit around their parent red dwarf star.