Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 30The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter this evening at 9 P.M. EST. The pair is visible most of the night in the central region of ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 23Pluto reaches conjunction with the Sun at 5 A.M. EST.

The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for astronomy beginners that Contributing Editor Raymond Shubinski recommends or ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from a Hubble Space Telescope archive and found hundreds of ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...

A team of scientists at the University of Missouri has identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The objects, identified by Haojing Yan ...

It's Christmas morning. Snow is gently falling outside, cinnamon rolls are baking in the kitchen, and you just opened the present you've been dreaming of - a telescope! But after the initial ...