Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

This is a good time to see the Milky Way, which is part of our own galaxy. Looking to the south from late evening ... In the pre-dawn sky, Saturn is in the south east and lower down in the east is ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

In today’s Universe, about half of all galaxies are quiescent. Many of these are massive and have an elliptical shape. Scientists thought it took billions of years for such galaxies to form.

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to measure variation in the temperature on top of the Venusian clouds. They ...

A new batch of 15 Giant Radio Galaxies, the largest of which is 12.4 light-years wide, could help reveal how black holes and galactic mergers help the universe's largest single objects grow so large.

The Moon passes 7° north of Venus at 5 A.M. EDT. An hour before sunrise the pair is easy to see in the east, nearly 20° high in the constellation Aries. Venus is the brightest point of light in ...

Serena and Venus Williams are taking their sister act to the airwaves. The pair of tennis legends announced Tuesday that they'll be launching a video podcast this summer in partnership with the social ...

The smaller Egg, glowing brightly to the Penguin's left, is a densely packed elliptical galaxy that has not changed much during its long galactic dance, according to NASA. Although the Egg looks ...