Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

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July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

On July 4, Mercury will reach its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, making it visible from Earth. While not as bright ...

Our waxing crescent moon doesn't return to the sky alone — it brings ... of those forced-perspective tourist photos where someone pretends to hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Saturn flaunts its ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere ...

Looking for Saturn? On the night of May 22, the planet will be just 2°28’—or the distance of about 2.5 pinky fingers at arm’s length—away from the waning crescent moon.