Astronomy News & Astronomical Events | Sky & Telescope

This episode takes you on a guided audio tour of the stars and planets that you’ll see overhead during November.

Astronomers have identified more than 1,000 outer solar system objects in data from the Rubin Observatory — including a possible new dwarf planet.

Saturn glows for Halloween, the Summer Triangle effect continues, the Taurids tease, and the last-quarter Moon passes Mars, Jupiter, and Regulus in early dawn.

From the Scream Nebula to bobbing for planets in daylight, Halloween offers an ample bag of treats.

The Rubin Observatory has detected thousands of new asteroids, including several that spin a lot faster than expected for typical rubble piles.

The California demonstration by Reflect Orbital used spotlights to imitate sunlight-reflecting satellites.

A team of researchers claims the Hyades star cluster may form the heart of van Gogh's "The Starry Night."

The Moon lights the way to Saturn 3,300 times farther behind it, then it befriends the Pleiades.

The stars in our galaxy come in a beautiful assortment of colors.

A two-stage, H3-24L rocket lit up the predawn skies over Tanegashima Space Center on the southern tip of Japan early on Tuesday, October 20th (3:41 p.m.

Planetesimal wrecks are raging around distant stars.

The South American country, which hosts some of the world’s major astronomical observatories, promises to protect its night skies, from the Atacama Desert to Tierra del Fuego.

Tonight the Moon's in the Teapot.

This curious cloud requires no solid particles to seed its formation — a theoretical phenomenon that's never been observed until now.

The Moon bugs out just in time to enjoy the peak of the Orionids, which trace their origin to Halley's Comet.

NASA announced three new scientific payloads that will head to the Moon to better understand lunar hazards and resources.

New simulations suggest that the planets' orbits will destabilize well before the Sun expands into its red giant phase.

Take advantage of these moonless evenings!