A total lunar eclipse kicks off March. Jupiter is well placed most of the night, while Venus shines brilliantly and Uranus is ...

A team of scientists has confirmed that the nearby star GJ 887 hosts at least four planets, one of which could be a habitable world — the second closest to our own solar system. RELATED: Animal life ...

To many of you, Observable Space — formerly PlaneWave — needs no introduction. Starting as a breakaway from Celestron in southern California in 2006, PlaneWave was founded by Rick Hedrick and Joe ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of March 8 to see a close grouping of two planets. This time, brilliant Venus — the ...

On Oct. 10, 1846, William Lassell peered through his 20-foot reflector in Liverpool, England. Lassell was a self-funded amateur astronomer who had made a fortune as a brewer, and he’d built his own ...

The well-known star Betelgeuse is Orion the Hunter’s alpha star. Shining at magnitude 0.5, this aging sun lies roughly 500 to 600 light-years away. It’s also one of the best candidates for the next ...

February 24 was the date a new information pipeline began for astronomers around the world. Their computers received a deluge of cosmic notifications — 800,000 alerts about new asteroids, supernovae, ...

A recent story in The Planetary Science Journal reported that scientists at the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and colleagues have produced the first global map ...

Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, brought to you by Celestron. Dave’s weekly video series will cover all the latest sky events, ...

We are quickly losing sight of Saturn in the evening sky — tonight, take some time to glimpse the glorious ringed planet before it gets too low in the west. An hour after sunset, Venus and Mercury ...