Vesta is passing an 8th-magnitude field star, offering a great opportunity to see the space rock’s motion on the sky over just a few nights.

There's so much more to Andromeda than its eponymous galaxy. Here's a list of other targets to observe in the Princess.

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

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Astronomers have long speculated about the existence of a mysterious planet lurking far beyond Neptune, a world several times ...

Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school that’s changed in recent years. Everything from the ...

This paper provides concrete evidence that the expanding and accelerating Universe mathematically expressed by dark energy is ...