Saturn’s two-toned moon, Iapetus, sits 9.5’ west of the planet and shines at its brightest, offering a good chance to spot it.

The ringed planet shows off several moons, Venus hangs with the Beehive, and Mercury passes Regulus in the sky this week.

German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Wild Duck Cluster in 1681. Messier made it his 11th catalog entry May 30, ...

SpaceX Starship achieves its first payload deployment, overcoming past failures and advancing the mission toward Mars ...

Iapetus is nearly at western elongation, now 10th magnitude and standing in line with Saturn’s other bright moons today.

The Full Moon typically ruins deep-sky imaging, but the right processing can bring out fainter targets. Here are some expert ...

The brightening Moon now sits to the left of Spica tonight, helping guide the way to Libra’s lovely double star, ...

There will be tours of the various sites, tours of Tombaugh’s telescopes, daytime solar observing, and, of course, nighttime observing through both the 16- and 18-inch telescopes, along with lots of ...

Matter-antimatter asymmetry puzzles physicists. Learn how the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) may find answers.

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...