October's longer nights bring two transits of Titan across Saturn, while Io and Europa tango together across Jupiter three ...
The entire progression will be observed by the ESA’s orbiters the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as well as ...
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...
While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French ...
The algorithm models the blurring incurred by Earth's atmosphere and counteracts it, producing sharp and clear images.
On the night of Oct. 27, 1965, a new 16-inch telescope situated in a new observatory on the campus of Colorado State ...
From 1985 to 2014, Jean Mueller supported astronomers from around the world who came to Palomar to use its iconic instruments ...
Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us in early November.
The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be ...
The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum ...
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct. For his 10″ reflector, [Carl Anderson] once again said “Yolo”— this time ...
Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely ...