The leading explanation for each of these events is what’s known as a bit flip: an electronic glitch caused by radiation from space. Although uncommon, they can have significant consequences. And as ...

Mercury and Jupiter are growing closer in the evening sky, but the former is also getting fainter and more challenging to ...

The Full Moon glows, Mercury stands still, and Venus blazes bright as it closes in on the heart of in Leo the Lion in the sky ...

A robotic spacecraft headed to the Marshall Islands last week — the last stop on its way to rescue a 21-year-old NASA space ...

The strange, two-toned moon Iapetus moves north of Saturn early this morning, offering an easy chance to spot it.

China’s Chang’e 6 mission successfully returned to Earth two years ago today, delivering the first-ever rock and soil samples from the Moon’s farside. Because the largely unexplored farside is ...

The asteroid Lutetia is skimming past several bright stars in Scorpius, including two stunning doubles you won’t want to miss ...

This bluish, oval-shaped planetary nebula in the constellation Hercules is small but easy to spot, even in beginner scopes.

This broad, bright emission nebula near the tail end of Cygnus the Swan is great for night owls up after midnight.

On my way to Tash Rabat from Son-Kul, both in Kyrgyzstan, sitting on the comfortable seats of a minibus, I had to pinch myself just to realize that it wasn’t a dream. I could see green valleys on one ...

Astronomical summer begins with a gorgeous lineup of lights in the evening sky, including three planets, two stars and the ...