As darkness falls, Jupiter, nearing its biggest and brightest for 2024 rises north of due east and remains on display ...

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on ...

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...

Credit: Galileo Galilei Saturn is one of the five classical planets visible to the unaided eye. Astronomers of ancient Greece named it for the titan Kronos. The Romans called it "the star of ...

When the planet is in opposition in Sagittarius, or between Taurus and Gemini, the rings appear broadest, and Saturn shines more brightly than a star of the first magnitude. Finally, when the ...

Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel crater might make it look like the “Death Star” space station from Star Wars, but it’s ...