Earth Day is about celebrating our own "pale blue dot," but sometimes stargazing can help us appreciate what is right in front of us even more. Plus, looking up at the night sky is the perfect ...

Based in Somerset, southwest England, astrophotographer and night-sky conservationist Josh Dury has dedicated his career to ...

According to Culbertson, Venus will be the higher of the two “eyes” while Saturn will be the lower, and the thin, crescent ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is a well-known stellar nursery with vast swaths of cosmic dust and gas from ...