Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday3Pluto reaches conjunction with the Sun at 5 A.M. EST. Also this ...

For years, Jeff and Linda Fishman of Frederick spent every Dec. 31 visiting places within driving distance that had embraced a growing American tradition: lowering a weird novelty object — and not a ...

Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which constantly bombards it with gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has ...

With five games left in the 2025 NFL season, Andy Reid and the Chiefs find themselves in a very unfamiliar, and uncomfortable, spot as they are in serious danger of missing the playoffs for the first ...

People are only just learning of a strange US plot to bomb the moon, and the reason is even more bizarre than the plan. For a company that has famously frequented the giant space rock, NASA was ...

A Japanese astronomer captured a pair of objects slamming into the lunar surface in recent days. By Robin George Andrews Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into ...

The next full moon, a beaver moon, will be visible on Nov. 5 at 8:19 a.m., according to TimeandDate.com. After the full moon, the last quarter moon will appear on Nov. 12 at 12:28 a.m., followed by ...

At dusk on Nov. 1, the bright first-magnitude “star” in the east-southeast to southeast, about 4° to the lower left of the 83 percent waxing gibbous moon, is actually Saturn. Binoculars or a telescope ...

Look to the southwestern horizon at sunset on Oct. 23 to see the slender form of the crescent moon shine close to Mercury and Mars in the evening sky. The 6%-lit waxing crescent moon will be visible ...

An unexpected visitor next to the crescent moon caught the attention of Texas skywatchers early Friday morning, prompting a flurry of questions—and photos—online. In Austin, a Reddit user took to the ...