In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out sometime soon and observe the planet Mercury in the evening. Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, only pokes above ...

New York, NY In Forty Ways to Know a Star: Using Stars to Understand Astronomy, Jillian Scudder explores stars’ greatest mysteries through 40 short essays accompanied by photos and illustrations.

A number of items that will be worn by the American League and National League during All-Star Game festivities this summer ...

The Bullseye galaxy has nine rings, more than any other known galaxy. These rings formed from a collision with a smaller galaxy. The collision created new stars, visible as blue and red rings. The ...

Happy 10th anniversary, Ruslan Baginskiy! A decade in business is a significant milestone by any measure, but even more so ...

Explore the UGC 10214, the Tadpole Galaxy, a faint, peculiar spiral galaxy in Draco with a dramatic tidal tail and active star formation — an elusive but rewarding target for deep-sky observers ...

The Moon doesn’t rise until late tonight, leaving a dark window after sunset to explore the sky. Back in Leo in the west this evening, you might try your luck with Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann ...

The Northern Hemisphere skies may offer many treats for the eyes, but we who live under them often pine for the delights unique to the southern sky. Those lucky southern astronomers get to see the ...

The Full June Strawberry Moon lights up the sky from sunset to sunrise, arcing low in the south overnight.

Mercury now shines at magnitude –0.8 in the evening sky, lingering above the horizon some 80 minutes after the Sun disappears. Tonight, the solar system’s smallest planet stands just 20 ...

For the right athlete, that first hat worn on the NBA Draft stage will tell what-if stories that can last for decades.

The W of Cassiopeia hangs in the sky above Yosemite Valley in this gorgeous moonlit photo. Eta Cassiopeiae is indicated with an arrow. Credit: Kunal Mehta (Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) ...