Modest binoculars or a small telescope are all you need to see the Beehive Star Cluster. Appearing as a circular patch of ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

Beneath a breathtaking full Moon, construction on the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope—the ELT—progresses in ...

The image of an American flag on the moon is undoubtedly one of the most iconic ever. But has the flag survived to this day, ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

The month of May 2025 is shaping up to be a dazzling spectacle for skywatchers. From a micromoon known as the “Flower Moon” ...

Our guide to the best smart telescopes that will help you observe ... experience with your friends and family. The full flower moon will illuminate the skies on May 12, with Mars and Jupiter ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...