See the Wolf Moon and Mars pull off a rare vanishing act Monday night
Rising just before sunset on January 13, the Full Wolf Moon will be up all night, and will slip below the western horizon ...
An amateur astronomer used an old technique to study Jupiter — and found something strange
Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map ...
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BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic plains
The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...
Water and carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet ...
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Watch the moon hide the 'Seven Sisters' of the Pleiades star cluster tonight
On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star ...
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A 'planetary parade' will dance across the sky on Jan. 21 — but that's not the best night to see it
Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...