Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ever since.

Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

Celebrate International Dark Sky Week by hosting a backyard stargazing party. Experts suggest optimal timing with clear skies ...

A stretch of warm, humid weather will dominate Magnolia this weekend into early next week, with scattered thunderstorms but ...

Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

In February, stargazers enjoyed a rare occurrence: All seven of Earth's planetary siblings dotted the night sky at once. And ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star ...

Here's what will be visible in the night sky in the United States in May 2025. On May 12, the skies will be treated to the Flower Moon, also known as the Corn Planting Moon, Milk Moon, Hare's Moon and ...