Astronomy Magazine

A world of both fire and ice, Mercury excites and confounds scientists.

Rather than radio waves, could light beams hold the key to receiving an alien message?...

A Gift From Halley This weekend, go outside and look up in the dark hours before dawn to witness the annual Orionid meteor shower, which will hit its peak overnight on October 21-22. You may have seen a few stray meteors zooming across the sky, left...

This titanic group of galaxies was already forming just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang....

A new report says it's time to head underground to find life on other worlds....

The waxing gibbous Moon crosses into Capricornus this evening, where it has a magnificent encounter with magnitude –0.9 Mars.

An event that looks suspiciously like the one that produced gravitational waves in 2017 hints that mergers between neutron stars and other exotic objects may be easier to find than we'd thought....

The solar system's largest satellite may hold the key to understanding its sister moon, Europa....

For the first time, researchers have found a young “toddler” star with four massive, gas giant exoplanets around it....

NASA's 19-year-old X-ray telescope will soon continue its mission, as engineers continue working to fix Hubble's malfunctioning gyroscope....

In one of two dress rehearsals, Hayabusa2 is descending almost close enough to touch the boulder-strewn surface....

Get ready for an exquisite night sky line-up that you won't want to miss....

The winter sky's most conspicuous constellation is now prominent in the dawn sky. ...

The idea that our universe is expanding was once radical, but today it underpins our entire understanding of the cosmos.

Scientists find new clues to explain the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon....