Astronomy

Astronomers have a plan to observe an errant piece of a SpaceX rocket as it hits the moon to better understand impact events

These meteor showers occur around the same time every year, with their peaks taking place over four days at the end of July

Duration, location, aviation: What makes the best possible view of a total solar eclipse?

A controversial new ruling from the Federal Communications Commission leaves no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other ill effects from skyrocketing numbers of satellites

Beta Pictoris d is more than twice the size of Jupiter, but it is a baby compared to its humongous neighbors

Skygazers are in for a treat on August 12, as one of the most spectacular meteor showers coincides with a total solar eclipse

Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists have discovered

Other planets have moons, too. Do they get eclipses like we do?

A strange class of comet could explain the enigmatic behavior of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object—and even shed light on how Earth became habitable

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built around

The rocket’s red glare has nothing on these images from Chandra X-ray Observatory