There’s something wonderfully unlikely about being able to see Saturn’s rings from your own garden. You know they’re there, obviously. But finding them through an eyepiece is a rather different ...

Follow the foot traffic. Sidewalk astronomers often set up at street fairs, outdoor events, nightlife hotspots, or by any venue where a lot of people tend to pass by. If you want to set up at an event ...

What are smart scopes? And why are they great for astrophotography? EarthSky’s Marcy Curran tells you why she loves them.

September 27, 2026 • This November, a notable number of Democrats are running for Congress who all have one thing in common: they are members of the clergy. In a moment when the party is counting on ...

The road to launch was long and arduous, but NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope finally got to space in late August. While Roman is still on its way to its final destination, it reached a major ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft’s fuel load will last twice as long ...

The signal is not a message. It is the same kind of crackle Jupiter’s auroras send out, and it gives the first direct reading of a distant planet’s magnetic field. Beta Pictoris is a young star about ...

As the newest heavy hitter in orbital observatories continues the journey to its final destination, NASA has begun the process of switching the spacecraft on. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space ...

NASA’s latest space telescope blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center early Sunday morning, and several University of Arizona researchers with connections to the mission planned to be there for the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Early Sunday morning, NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission is to help astronomers search for dark energy and planets.

Radio waves have been detected from planet-hosting systems before. The difficulty has always been proving they came from the planet and not from the star it orbits, which is vastly brighter. Here, the ...