Isabella Castel-branco explores the excitement of planetary alignments, debunking common misconceptions and highlighting the best ways to observe February’s night sky.

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The International Astronomical ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon appears to turn ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...