The Senate appropriations committee challenges Trump’s 2026 budget, aiming to protect NASA Science and NSF from major cuts.

M4 is a globular star cluster in the Scorpius constellation. Antares, Scorpius' brightest star, helps locate M4. M4 is visible to the naked eye, but a telescope shows more detail. Good luck!

Whether you observe in the morning or evening, the solar system has something for you today as two worlds reach their ...

Low-mass stars like our Sun expel their outer layers as a planetary nebula because of what is going on in the star’s core as it ages.

On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft seen as a rival to the American Apollo 11 mission ...

Venus is notably brighter — magnitude –4.1, far outshining magnitude 0.9 Aldebaran, the brightest star in the Taurus and ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

Today in the history of astronomy, the most prolific comet-discoverer of all time gets his start.

Globular cluster M56 is a gorgeous object in Lyra the Lyre that anyone can observe with binoculars or a telescope.

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Algol, also known as the Demon Star, loses some 70 percent of its light every three days. It's in Perseus the Hero, now ...