Let’s go on a night-sky tour of the stars and planets that you’ll see overhead during August. Find a good seat for some great “shooting stars,” watch Saturn climb in the eastern sky in early evening, check out the summer's brightest stars, and start looking for a once-in-your-lifetime star blast.
Low in twilight, climbing Venus and descending Spica prepare to pass each other. After dark Vega crosses the zenith, and Scorpius beds down. Mercury shines at dawn.
Last month, astronomers discovered a giant black hole in Omega Centauri. But it might contain a swarm of stellar-mass black holes instead.
New data from an array of telescopes has enabled astronomers to visualize the surface of the North Star, Polaris.
Did you know you can see the International Space Station even when it's in Earth's shadow? We explore possible reasons why.
The worldwide network of radio dishes has achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from Earth’s surface.
Amateur astronomers have shown that the first satellites of the Chinese Qianfan (“Thousand Sails”) constellation are bright enough to be seen naked-eye.
New James Webb Space Telescope observations may have done with one of the longest-standing tensions in cosmology.
We're in peak Milky Way season, and the evenings have become dark and moonless. Andromegasus is up. So is Saturn. Before dawn, the late-risen Moon passes over Jupiter and Mars.
A Westfield, Massachusetts, teenager is the recipient of an award in recognition of her multi-faceted outreach activities.
The European mission to Jupiter's icy moons provided us with some amazing views closer to home, of Earth and the Moon.
New analysis reveals evidence of a super-Earth-mass exoplanet forming in the disk surrounding the star TW Hydrae.
This far-southern constellation contains some delightful sights for small telescopes.
Vega shines overhead as the zenith star at dusk. Jupiter and Mars are separating. When the Moon is just past full it poses next to Saturn — which, by no coincidence, is less than a month from opposition.
A new chemical analysis confirms the Chicxulub impactor was a fragile type of asteroid that formed in the outer solar system, unlike several other ancient impactors.
Is Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS falling apart? How bright will it likely get? We try to answer those questions and more.
New research suggests that our galaxy’s first stars might have come together within a billion years after the Big Bang.
Hold your breath: astronomers are re-evaluating their definition of a planet. Spoiler: it won’t bring Pluto back into the family.
Astronomers at the International Astronomical Union report that we have now detected more than 200 gravitational-wave events, most the merger of two black holes.
The Perseids peak on Sunday night, August 11-12 and just might be joined by a colorful display of northern lights.
The Perseid meteor shower peaks late Sunday night August 11th and maybe Monday night too. Jupiter and Mars have a close conjunction on the morning of the 14th, looking radically different in the same telescopic view.
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