The crescent moon will shine with Jupiter among the stars of Gemini early on Sept. 16. Turn your eyes to the east in the ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

American astronomer Frank Drake is a pioneer in this field. He not only initiated the first official search for extraterrestrial civilizations but also proposed the famous "Drake Equation" and ...

By Wausau Pilot & Review Staff This week’s night sky offers a mix of planetary pairings, comet sightings, and a striking ...

The gas giant has been measured for the first time in decades, trimming 8 kilometres from its diameter Jupiter is not quite ...

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully found and characterised the auroral “footprints” of Jupiter’s moon Callisto for the first time. This discovery completes ...

When Edward Emerson Barnard peered through the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory on Sept. 9, 1892, and spotted Amalthea, it marked the first discovery of a moon of Jupiter in 280 years. Galileo ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has detected the auroras of Jupiter's moon Callisto for the first time, completing observations of all four Galilean moons.

In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly ...