The next Full Moon in 2024 is at 9:08 pm. ET on Friday, June 21, and is called the Strawberry Moon. It's the sixth Full Moon ...

Using a network of telescopes scattered across the globe, amateur astronomers can turn a candidate exoplanet into a confirmed ...

Recently, we discovered a radio transient that isn’t like anything astronomers have seen before. Not only does it have a ...

The red dwarf is 600 light-years away and gives astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like ...

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy ...

If you’re an amateur astronomer of a certain age, you’ll remember where you were in the winter of 1985–86, when Halley’s ...

William “Bill” Anders, former Apollo 8 astronaut, died in a plane crash on Friday, June 7, 2024. Anders was piloting a small ...

Although the next major meteor shower — the Southern Delta Aquariids — doesn’t hit until next month, our skies are never ...

The water vapor was detected after three years of observing GJ 9827d and could be an example of planets with water-rich ...

June’s pre-dawn sky finds six planets strung along the ecliptic, spanning 72° on the 1st. In order of increasing elongation ...

Oleg Kononenko, the first person to log 1,000 days off Earth, has orbited the planet 16,000 times and flown 420 million miles ...

Gas giant WASP-193b — with a “puffy” atmosphere — is huddled around a distant Sun-like star and is the second-lightest ...