Inventor Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856, in what is now Croatia (then part of the Austrian Empire). In 1899, Tesla ...

Tonight's Full Moon, called the Bucky Moon, rises in the southeast and sets in the southwest, tracing a low path through the ...

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.

Climbing to 60° high in the east two hours before sunrise, the constellation Andromeda lies just to the upper right of the easy-to-spot W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. This morning, let’s enjoy a ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out during the evening of July 7 and observe the pretty bright Moon passing Antares, also known as Alpha Scorpii. Look sharp, ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

Our satellite hangs out with the heart of the Scorpion, known for its vivid red hue as the Rival of Mars in our sky.