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The waxing Moon grows along the horns of Taurus, then passes first-quarter phase amid Jupiter and the heads of the Gemini twins.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our world — and how we interpret the heavens above us.

A rare, near perfect young-Moon challenge awaits North Americans after sunset on March 19th. Jupiter rules the evening from on high in central Gemini.

As the comet prepares for its perilous perihelion passage, we look at what to expect.

Samples returned from Ryugu contain all five nucleobases, just like from asteroid Bennu. The find suggests life’s ingredients could have come from outside Earth.

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way, is undergoing a complete galactic transformation after a recent collision with its nearest neighbor.

Just 35 light-years away, in the southern constellation Volans, the Flying Fish, is a world unlike any other. The weird, low-density planet, known as L98-59 d, appears tohave a deep […]

The disk of gas that spirals onto a newborn magnetar wobbles, creating "bumps" in the brightness of the supernova that accompanied this object's birth.

Dozens on amateur astronomers helped measure the minuscule difference in Didymos’s trajectory around the Sun, after NASA’s DART mission impacted its moon.

While small galaxies are expected to have even smaller satellite galaxies, astronomers have found a surprising number of tiny companions around one dwarf galaxy.

The latest JWST images, along with archival images taken before the asteroid was even discovered, combine to refine its trajectory.

We live our lives in a blink of universal time.

Bright Jupiter highlights the Gemini stick-figure twins standing on either side of it. Down below, the Winter Triangle balances on its Sirius point.

The Vera Rubin Observatory is seeing 800,000 astronomical alerts per night — and that number will only increase.

Known as ASTERIS, the AI network removes noise from images to reveal features a full magnitude fainter than before.

Experts are concerned that the satellites could ruin dark skies, pollute the atmosphere, and worsen space debris. The public has a limited time to comment.

This month’s episode showcases the stars and planets visible on March evenings. First up: March 3rd’s predawn a total lunar eclipse! Then track down three planets after sunset, and savor the easy-to-spot Winter Triangle of bright stars.

Stars have a hard time forming in the extreme environment around our Milky Way’s black hole. New data promises to explain why.

A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible before dawn this Tuesday, March 3rd, from western North America. The eclipse happens on Tuesday evening for Australia and East Asia.

Jupiter forms a T with the Moon, Pollux, and Castor on Friday February 27th. Low in the western twilight, Saturn and Venus close in on each other. And can you catch the total lunar eclipse on the morning of March 3rd?

March opens with a spectacular total lunar eclipse. Our guide will help you make the most of it.