Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

One of the most reliable meteor showers to light up our night sky each year has begun!

While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will pass within 3.83 million miles of the surface of the sun on Dec. 24, and multiple planets will ...

T he solar maximum continues to deliver. As the Sun is experiencing its peak of activity, coronal mass ejections and solar flares are happening more and more often. One of those plasma releases is now ...

Turn your eyes to the skies tonight and you might see some shooting stars. According to the American Meteor Society (AMS), a ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.