The vernal equinox occurs at 10:46 A.M. EDT, bringing astronomical spring to the Northern Hemisphere as the Sun stands directly over Earth’s equator. On this day, the Sun also sits at the celestial ...

The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter at 8 A.M. EDT. By evening, they are high overhead in Gemini the Twins, now nearly 8° apart as the Moon sits near Pollux, the slightly brighter of the two brothers’ ...

As close as we astronomers love to feel to space, one thing stands between us and the outer reaches: Earth’s atmosphere. More than 60 miles (97 kilometers) of gases separate us from the cosmos, and it ...

Born March 21, 1866, in New York, Antonia Maury was born into a family with an astronomical legacy: Her grandfather, John William Draper, was the second person to photograph the Moon (and the first ...

A vertical dark band cutting through a bright nebula marks the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star IRAS 04302+2247. Observations of such disks will help astronomers understand how small ...

This is the ideal night to run the 2026 Messier marathon. This annual event challenges observers to view every object in Charles Messier’s catalog in a single night, from sundown to sunup. According ...

French inventor Louis Daguerre, pioneer of the early photography process of daguerreotypes, is believed to have captured the first photo of the Moon on Jan. 2, 1839. However, the quality and other ...

Asteroid 7 Iris is drifting through Sextans, passing close to a close pair of stars that provides an anchor for those looking to watch the space rock’s movement across the sky. Step outside early this ...

High in the south this evening is Canis Minor the Little Dog, shining above the bright star Sirius, which lies closer to the horizon. True to its name, the Little Dog is a little constellation, ...

Europe’s Spectrum rocket returns to the skies with Onward and Upward What's Launching This Week ...

Are you ready to meet Rocky? Project Hail Mary opens March 20, 2026, sending science teacher (and former molecular biologist) Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, on an adventure light-years from ...

To many of you, Observable Space — formerly PlaneWave — needs no introduction. Starting as a breakaway from Celestron in southern California in 2006, PlaneWave was founded by Rick Hedrick and Joe ...