This bright, easy-to-find open cluster of young stars looks to some like a flock of birds flying through the sky.

Nearly five-month mission concludes as agency continues its human presence on the International Space Station.

The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.

Today in the history of astronomy, the forerunner of the National Air and Space Museum is created.

It’s a busy morning! Look for Perseid meteors as you catch a conjunction of bright Jupiter and Venus before dawn.

In last week’s edition, we mistakenly reported that the USSF-106 mission was scheduled for August 10. On August 5, United ...

Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.

Moving through western Aquarius, 89 Julia is visible all night and points the way to two bright Messier objects nearby.

Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible close to the ringed world today, along with several other of the planet’s brighter moons.

The Yerkes Future Foundation officially owns the historic Yerkes Observatory glass plates, securing a vital link between ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

The only person to fly to the Moon twice but never trod its surface had some amazing stories to tell. Originally published ...