Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

The month brings a spectacular lineup of celestial sights—including a rare chance to see Mercury without a telescope and a ...

The full moon of November, called the Beaver Moon, will be full illuminated on Nov. 5 at 8:19 a.m. Eastern Time (1319 GMT), ...

The glow of the moon will even cast faint shadows on the ground, a rare effect visible only during the most intense ...

The brilliant star Fomalhaut appears each year around this time, marking the arrival of autumn and offering a clear evening view for stargazers.

One of the classic constellations of the night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horsey is currently soaring in ...

Add Mercury’s best morning appearance of the year, and November 2025 is a great month for taking cameras and tripods outside ...

The Tallahassee Astronomical Society holds a free night sky viewing event monthly at Cascades Park. Fall back to standard ...

Comet Lemmon is currently racing toward the Sun, while the fainter Comet SWAN is moving away. Both are set to make their ...

“Full beaver supermoon” is not a combination of words that one encounters often, but this month brings the second of three ...

The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have ...