Today in the history of astronomy, the forerunner of the National Air and Space Museum is created.

It’s a busy morning! Look for Perseid meteors as you catch a conjunction of bright Jupiter and Venus before dawn.

Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.

In last week’s edition, we mistakenly reported that the USSF-106 mission was scheduled for August 10. On August 5, United ...

The Yerkes Future Foundation officially owns the historic Yerkes Observatory glass plates, securing a vital link between ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evenings of August 12th and 13th to watch for rapid streaks of light crossing the sky. Those streaks occur when ...

Moving through western Aquarius, 89 Julia is visible all night and points the way to two bright Messier objects nearby.

A massive explosion created a stellar jet bubble that collided with its own star's protoplanetary disk, revealing a harsher, more chaotic environment for planet formation ...

Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible close to the ringed world today, along with several other of the planet’s brighter moons.

Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...

August’s Full Sturgeon Moon shines brightly in the sky tonight, showing off the rayed crater Tycho in the south.

Alpha Centauri planet candidate discovered by JWST orbiting a Sun-like star. Learn about this potential gas giant in our ...