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It's early March, so the Winter Triangle balances on Sirius after dark. The Gemini twins float high across the meridian. Leo jumps the gun on spring.

As told in the latest episode of our long-running Sky Tour astronomy podcast, this month it’ll be challenging to a special kind of lunar eclipse on March 25th — but easy to spot five of the 10 brightest stars in the night sky.

Totality may not be quite as dark as nighttime, but the difference between 99% obscuration and 100% is still night and day.

The three new moons for Uranus and Neptune are each part of a "family," groupings that fragmented from a single parent object.

Try this solar-eclipse experiment as you're watching the Moon cover up the Sun.

Find time this season to set aside your telescope and seek the night sky's ghostly glows.

Models of the NASA's DART impact reshaping the asteroid moon Dimorphos show that this object is "rubble all the way down."

Conviértase en un experto en eclipses para familiares y amigos en un par de minutos

La eclíptica, dicho de manera simple, es el plano de la órbita de la Tierra alrededor del Sol.

The Japanese space agency has reestablished contact with its SLIM lunar lander prior to sunset, enabling mission science to continue.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found that distant dwarf planets might be methane factories.

The full Moon splits the Sickle, the dawn Moon occults Antares, carnivore constellations stand up in the east, and the zodiacal light is at its evening best.

Odysseus has become the first mission of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to soft-land on the Moon.

After decades of debate, James Webb Space Telescope observations provide firm evidence of a neutron star inside the 1987A supernova remnant.

If you have clouds in your forecast, don't give up! There’s plenty of astronomy to be enjoyed even on overcast nights.

In a new study, astronomers have identified a quasar more luminous and voracious than any found to date.

Standard cosmological scenarios might not explain the breadth of a newly discovered cosmic structure.

New observations of a neutron star in the Milky Way's center shed light on what makes mysterious fast radio bursts.

The Moon waxes from first quarter to full this week, traveling from the Pleiades past the not-quite-twin heads of Gemini to the Sickle of Leo. The Big Dipper and Cassiopeia stand in balance. Venus meets Mars low in the dawn.

The second Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission of 2024 IM-1 Nova-C heads Moonward.

Results from a brand-new high-energy observatory are rocking the field of cosmology. In particular, a study of more than 5,000 galaxy clusters relieves tension in the standard cosmological model.