Jupiter reaches a stunning opposition, Mars is brilliant, Saturn and Venus light the evening sky, and Mercury rises before ...

Jupiter reaches opposition; meanwhile, the star Canopus shines bright and the constellation Pictor offers many gems to view.

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...

Bridging the seasonal gap between fall and winter, Sagittarius is a mutable sign, one that not only heralds change but actively craves it. Shutterstock Arrows to the sky and caution to the wind ...

Astronomers have captured the first view of polarized light and the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A* (Sgr ... engine plume against the darkening sky, as the vehicle climbed high ...

Content continues below A simulated view of the celestial objects and constellations in the southern sky at midnight on December 15, 2024. (Stellarium/Scott Sutherland) Look 'past' the ...

The European Southern Observatory ... Located in the constellation Scorpius, near the center of the Milky Way, the Black Wolf Nebula lies approximately 5,300 light-years from Earth. This image spans ...

November's full moon joins another celestrial treat: the lovely Pleiades star cluster, located just beside the moon in the Taurus constellation ... be high in the southern sky when the moon ...