In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out soon and look at the planets in the evening sky. The highest is Mars, the so-called Red Planet. The giant planet ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it. By Katrina Miller and Dennis Overbye The NASA ...

Journal Editorial Report: New administrator announces, 'the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen.' Photo: Kent Nishimura/Reuters/Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg News “American taxpayers ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene played out: A museum was restituting a work of art, giving back something from its collection to the place where ...

Here's our hands-on guide to the best star projectors on the market from premium to novelty products covering a range of price points. The best star projectors offer genuine quality in what can ...

And we're just one galaxy within our entire Local Group! However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare handful of candidate sky objects that might—maybe—prove to be ...

March 18, 2025 • NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on the International Space Station more than nine months, despite launching into space in June for what was expected to be ...