Friday in D.C. occupied a special spot between May Day and Derby Day, and seemed to rise to the atmospheric occasion. It ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...

Bright stars visible during May mornings include Arcturus in the west; Vega nearly overhead; with nearby Altair and Deneb completing the Summer Triangle; Antares in the southwest; and Fomalhaut rising ...

The first of two sweeping epic novels, this one follows a young and headstrong Eliza starting in 1908, as she grows up on the ...

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.

Mars starts May not far from the Beehive star cluster, Venus is unmistakable in the predawn sky, and Mercury looks best early ...

Today, we know that M44 contains about 1,000 gravitationally bound stars, and that it’s about 577 light-years away from Earth ...

Allow Sky View 21 to take you to a "Moment of Zen" at Lower Allen Community Park, where spring is in full swing.

In a breathtaking new photograph shared by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the sun rises behind the Extremely Large ...

This week, the Lyrid meteor shower has taken over the night sky, casting shooting stars and fireballs darting overhead. And ...