As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...

These next two weeks bring us a potentially thrilling partial eclipse of the sun and amazing sights of Venus in its once-every-eight-years steepest departure from the evening sky.

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

A partial solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. However, as the sun-moon-Earth alignment ...

Venus will be visible in the morning and evening for a short period of time - a rare dual visibility that won't happen again ...

It's a busy week in outer space! Dr. Aileen O’Donoghue, astronomer with University and the Adirondack Sky Center and Observatory, checked in with NCPR to guide us through what we'll see.

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

Our season of spring officially begins when the sun crosses north of the celestial equator at the March equinox. For those in ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

With the increasing power of telescopes and computers, cosmologists today are pushing the boundaries of human knowledge about the universe, seeing further and simulating more accurately that ever ...