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Titan joins its shadow for a "grand finale" this October.

A surge of asteroids might have peppered the inner solar system some 800 million years ago, in a short-lived shower that left its mark — literally — on Earth and its neighbors.

Whether you end up catching a falling star or not, meteor shower vigils offer time with the stars.

New observations reveal turbulent flows in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and in the solar corona.

The number of gravitational-wave signals has just doubled with the release of the newest catalog of events.

Reflect Orbital plans to launch gigantic satellites to reflect sunlight into regions where night has already fallen, potentially harming eyes, altering sleep, and blocking the starry sky.

S&T editors attended star parties in the past months in various locations around the country to observe with fellow stargazers.

The Perseverance has found compounds associated with life on Earth. But whether they indicate life on Mars awaits sample return.

Venus has double close conjunctions with the crescent Moon and Regulus in the dawn next Friday the 19th. Meanwhile, Saturn and Neptune are coming to opposition.

See the images that won the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year award.

The LIGO gravitational-wave detector celebrates its 10th birthday with the clearest signal yet from a pair of merging black holes.

Ukrainian amateur discovers a bright, new comet now in the evening sky.

September’s night sky features the iconic Summer Triangle, almost directly overhead at nightfall, and a newcomer to the evening sky: the planet Saturn, which will rise in the east not long after sunset. Get tips for viewing these and lots more stargazing info by downloading this month’s Sky Tour podcast!

The European spacecraft en route to Jupiter, named JUICE, completed its only flyby of the planet Venus

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Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury continue at dawn. The evening Moon meets Saturn while Fomalhaut looks on. Saturn's own biggest moon casts its shadow onto Saturn's globe, for one of the last times for the next 15 years.

Astronomers have pinpointed the location of an one-time fast radio burst to a spiral arm of a nearby galaxy.

With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a planet forming around a star 430 light-years away.

Twelve years after they were first discovered, astronomers are coming to grips with fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — energetic explosions in the distant universe lasting from minutes to hours. At […]

In this roundup of recent news, birds react to light pollution and a respected mirror maker calls it a day.

The Kite of Boötes tips. The Great Square of Pegasus balances en pointe. Cassiopeia climbs. And Saturn muscles up in the east.