If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That's easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...

If one looks high in the northeast or almost straight overhead for Capella on winter evenings, they can see Capella, the ...

One of the best meteor showers of the year is upon us — the Leonids. Named because they seem to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo, they will peak on Friday night and early Saturday morning ...

The comet won’t return for over 400 years, and tomorrow morning is your best chance to witness this celestial spectacle in our lifetime. Reading time 2 minutes Nishimura (2023 P1), a comet discovered ...

(CNN) — When NASA’s next-generation space observatory launches in a few years, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the search for exoplanets as well as rogue planets, or worlds that ...