This evening’s viewing challenge is the planet Mercury. It is less than half a fist above the west-northwestern horizon at ...

Goar’s passion is the Dark Sky Telescope Program that runs through Sept. 21, and that takes place in the Hurricane Ridge parking lot (no hiking required). There are three to four telescopes set up for ...

Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

The moon will be 99% full Friday night, and with mostly clear skies expected for Louisville in the evening, tonight is a good ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

The Pococo Galaxy Star Projector offers realistic imagery as a static or slowly rotating image. The fact that it's ...

The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Stargazers can find many locations throughout the country to explore the celestial wonders of the night sky, which serves as ...