On November 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. It happened at 9:46 p.m. on ...

Though it will be visible all night long, Uranus will be highest in the sky at midnight. Theoretically, it's possible to see ...

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, space engineer and presenter of TV’s the Sky at Night, has an unusual retirement plan in mind – in ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

You can watch the full moon rise live from Italy, in a free livestream courtesy of astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme ...

This Friday night will be clear, so I highly encourage you to go out and look to the east as the moon rises. It will have ...

Watch for the Taurid and Leonid meteor showers this weekend. Sky & Telescope reporter Kelly Beatty says we should also keep an eye out for Venus and Mercury in the night sky.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Dutifully showing up in the sky almost every night, Earth's reflective friend can certainly be witnessed with the unaided eye. However, if you're interested in more than just lunar phases, a telescope ...

The last supermoon of 2024, known as the beaver moon, was captured in stunning photos on Nov. 14. Stargazers have a chance to ...

It all looks so beautiful and peaceful. The images of other galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy convey a similar feeling. However, these impressions are incorrect. Out there among the galaxies, the ...