In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

This week’s #HubbleFriday highlights the breathtaking barred spiral galaxy NGC 3507, located 46 million light-years away in ...

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June 20, 2025, brings us the summer solstice. Supposedly, that means warmer weather has finally arrived in Wyoming. This ...

A dazzling cosmic swirl, NGC 3507 shines alone in this Hubble image, though it secretly belongs to a dynamic galactic duo.

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

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

Whether you're a seasoned stargazer or a backyard observer with binoculars, the final week of May offers a treasure trove of ...

New Moon brings excellent dark-sky conditions for observing galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters in the sky this week.

As it does, it will leave the night skies free from moonlight, which serious stargazers view as light pollution.In the week before the new moon, and for a couple of nights after, the night sky gets as ...

as seen by the bright pink regions and young blue stars tracing the galaxy's arms. NGC 3596 is situated 90 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, the Lion. Scientists still don't ...

PCCW Global and GalaxySpace, a private commercial space company based in China, completed testing on content transmission and communications using low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology. In a ...