Right after sunset, the largest and smallest planets are near neighbors in the sky. Jupiter, the brighter of the two, is a ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

This morning, set your sights on the first planetary nebula ever discovered: M27, the Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula.

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Skywatchers across central Wisconsin can look forward to a spectacular week of celestial activity, ...

Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

A Japanese company, ispace, is attempting a second lunar landing tomorrow, Why is it still so hard to land on the moon?

Greetings everyone! There are two planets in your early morning sky and one of them is impossible to miss unless the clouds ...

Identifying ancient Chinese astronomical events represents a fascinating aspect of modern astrophysics. Chinese astronomers ...