From Jupiter at its bright opposition to a slew of close planetary pairings, meteor showers and spectacular eclipses, here's ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

Planetary alignments, a total lunar eclipse, and meteor showers are highlights to look for in the coming year.

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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and early morning ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

In a year packed full of phenomenal cometary capers, astrophotographer Dan Bartlett captured a staggering image of comet ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Although we already know dozens of exoplanets without their own star, their masses could only be estimated. Now a precise ...

Astronomy stories of 2026 include the return of a total solar eclipse to the Artemis II mission that aims for humans ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, which will send a crew of four into lunar orbit, has been in the planning stages since 2011. It ...