The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is due to launch in spring 2027 to search for exoplanets, among other things. It has ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

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On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star ...

Venus is particularly bright in the night sky this month, outshining even Sirius, the brightest star. For observers at ...

Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid ...

Throughout January, four planets will line up in the night sky and be simultaneously visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere. Our celestial neighbours Venus and Mars as well as big ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

New space missions will aim to measure Earth's biomass from space, return stranded astronauts to Earth, and prepare for landing humans on the Moon. DW explains what's in store for 2025.