Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

Apr. 28, 2025 — Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...

An epic night for skywatchers is in the near forecast as Eta Aquarid meteors are at their peak, along with a geomagnetic storm update which includes an extended forecast of the northern lights across ...

The sun is currently in its solar maximum period, and anyone with the interest, says Anwar, can now look up through special ...

Mars starts May not far from the Beehive star cluster, Venus is unmistakable in the predawn sky, and Mercury looks best early ...

Telescopes provide closeup views of Jupiter and its four largest moons discovered by Galileo, and of Mars. Although Mars is ...

Current night-vision goggles and scopes are heavy and bulky. With the group's new pyroelectric-based approach, NVDs could have the same sensitivity without the cooling weight. The researchers also ...

A rare celestial event on Thursday and running into Friday will give skygazers a creative way to see a smiley face in the early morning sky ... moon plus two rising planets, Venus and Saturn ...

The moon, Saturn and Venus will create a rare smiley face in the sky later this week. Sometimes things line up in fun ways. That is set to happen early Friday morning in the night sky as the moon ...