I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

If you were to look at Saturn through a teelescope today, you’d be forgiven for being disapopinted: the rings that define the ...

The Met Office was predicted that there could be another chance to see the aurora tonight in parts of northern England and ...

As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...

According to Dr. Schmoll, the Earth's magnetic field has a north and south pole, just like any magnet. The sun does as well.

Joe Marten’s Feb. 25 letter (“Addressing energy poverty and combatting climate change) states I am “essentially claiming ...

For decades, scientists were baffled by why thorny skates in the North Atlantic came in two distinct sizes. Despite extensive ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

The Griffith Observatory was the perfect place to welcome spring. It’s an observatory, planetarium, and exhibition space that ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky ...

China's growing presence in the Western Hemisphere is a threat to the United States, the U.S. State Department has told Newsweek in unusually stark comments.

Another eclipse should be visible before the end of March. Here's when astronomers say this event will be best seen.