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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and view a close grouping of planets in the early morning hours of April 21. That morning, you’ll be able to see Venus, ...
In a preliminary budget proposal, the agency’s science programs would see a 50 percent reduction, with a 20 percent cut to ...
Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...
Telescopes, parts, accessories, and cameras are not included in exceptions announced April 12 to the Trump administration’s ...
The molecules, while not a direct sign of life, still signal the existence of complex chemistry on the Red Planet.
Skyrocketing tariffs on China are rippling through the astronomy industry. If they hold, some fear deeper wounds to the ...
The trio of launch providers has been awarded a total of 54 national security spaceflight missions over about five years.
Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...
The international four-person crew returns after nearly four days in space and observing Earth’s poles from orbit for the ...
Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.
These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.
These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...