Let’s look to Saturn this morning to catch Titan, its largest and brightest moon, now close to the planet as it passes south of its parent world. Shining at mid-8th magnitude, Titan is easy to spot in ...

Everyone can watch a small moon skim Saturn’s northern pole, while advanced imagers may catch its shadow on the cloud tops.

The European Space Agency telescope’s discovery of 31 ancient quasars gives astronomers their first look at black holes from ...

Famous double stars Mizar and Alcor in the handle of the Big Dipper are a visual challenge with the naked eye — can you split ...

For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their central black holes growing together. In the familiar story, a young galaxy forms first. Gas gathers. Stars ignite. Somewhere near the crowded ...

With no Moon in the sky tonight, it’s a great opportunity to chase after fainter objects, such as the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) in Draco. High in the north a few hours after sunset, this planetary ...

GRB 250314A is an ancient cosmic cataclysm caught by JWST's keen infrared eye. And it appears a lot like those that happen ...

Just after sunset, look west to spot blazing Venus above the bright star Regulus in Leo the Lion, not far from the famous ...

Main-belt world Melpomene reaches opposition in the constellation Aquila. Visible all night, this space rock is ready for its ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal that the so-called “Roasted Planet” is getting cooked by its host ...

Our satellite stands as the apex of a triangle with two outer planets — Saturn and Neptune — in the early-morning sky.