Astronomy Magazine

Comet 46P/Wirtanen reaches its peak while the Sun makes its lowest arc and the Full Moon makes its highest arc across our Northern Hemisphere sky....

Though you may be able to spot Comet 46P/Wirtanen with your naked eye under a dark sky, binoculars or a telescope will make it a much easier task.

As the Juno spacecraft prepares for its 16th close pass by Jupiter later this month, let's recap what the ambitious project has already taught us. ...

By looking at satellite images of scat stains left by Adélie penguins, researchers are investigating the well-being of the Antarctic ecosystem, which now includes a massive, previously unknown penguin colony.

Astronomers say radiation arriving from a powerful stellar explosion may be the event that wiped coastal ocean animals off the planet 2.6 million years ago....

After dropping from the WhiteKnightTwo aircraft at an altitude of 8 miles (13 km), SpaceShipTwo's hybrid rocket motor propelled the craft to an altitude of 50 miles (80 km).  ...

And if you're lucky enough to escape the clouds, you can expect to spot up to 120 meteors an hour from a dark-sky site.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first mission to send men around the Moon....

By slamming small particles into heavy gold nuclei at nearly the speed of light, scientists have created tiny, ultra-hot droplets of a bizarre type of matter called a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which once filled the entire universe shortly after the B...

Data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows that Ceres’ surface might have more than five times as much carbon as the most carbon-rich meteorites found on Earth....

The company’s commercial spaceship will undergo its next phase of testing with a launch window that opens Thursday....

The unmanned probe has sent back measurements indicating it's crossed out of the influence of our Sun's solar wind....

The dark, high-pressure depths of Earth’s interior is an unexpected place to find life.

Determining the cause of a small breach in the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has been harder than anticipated....

Take a peek at asteroid Bennu: porous, blue, and with a water-rich parent body....