October's longer nights bring two transits of Titan across Saturn, while Io and Europa tango together across Jupiter three times. Mercury and Mars make a brief evening appearance, and Venus dominates ...

Yet the excitement is muted a bit in October because the rings appear nearly edge-on. They tilt 1.5° to our line of sight on the 1st and just 0.6° on the 31st. With the rings creating less distraction ...

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The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. Using data from NASA’s James ...

While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French smart telescope pioneer Vaonis helps quench my thirst with a special edition of ...

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other exoplanets, specifically Earth-sized exoplanets within the habitable zone, also ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

October opens with Saturn, just about a week past opposition, high up in the eastern sky after dark and visible all night. Look for it just below the nearly Full Moon on October 5th. Full Moon is one ...

Wisconsin's historic Yerkes Observatory reveals a place where Edwin Hubble, Carl Sagan, and many pioneering women of astronomy once explored the cosmos.

It took a new DNA technique and a detective’s ruse in a diner to reveal Joseph Martinez as the alleged killer of 13-year-old Minerliz Soriano.

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.