The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected a staggering800,000 celestial changes in the night sky during a single observation session. This unprecedented achievement opens a new chapter in the study ...

Firefly Aerospace grabbed headlines in 2025 when its Blue Ghost lander became the first by a commercial company to stick its ...

A single particle cut through the Mediterranean in February 2023 carrying an almost absurd amount of energy. Detected deep ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. March 9: Callisto's disappearing act The Moon passes 0.7° south of the star Antares in the constellation Scorpius at 8 A.M.

The Rubin Observatory issues rapid alerts for changing celestial objects, enabling global scientists to detect supernovae, asteroids, and variable stars within minutes of observation.

Track the waning gibbous moon and bright star Antares in the pre-dawn sky on March 9. Learn where and when to see them, with telescope and binocular guidance.

Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1), a "Kreutz sungrazer,” will skim the sun in early April and may put on a brief, dramatic show low in ...

Tonight the moon is now in a waning gibbous phase after the big full moon total lunar eclipse show earlier this week that won't be visible again in our part ...

March evenings offer some of the best observing conditions of the late-winter sky, with the Moon gradually fading from a ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 6With no Moon in the early-evening sky, let's chase down ...

Dead in Antares is available now on Steam. Watch the Dead in Antares launch trailer for this turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by several telescopes. This approach, known as long-baseline interferometry, ...