Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

It last passed nearby 180,000 years ago and the next few nights could be your last chance to ever see it as it drifts over ...

Heads up, skywatchers, this cold week of January 2025, a six-planet alignment is forecasted to peak as Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn come together shortly after sunset in the sky.

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and watch a close pairing of two naked-eye planets: Venus and Saturn. The ...

Here are some of the best things to do this week in San Diego, from Monday, Jan. 20 to Friday, Jan. 24. Check back Wednesday ...

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

On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more.

Iowans willing to brave the cold can catch a glimpse of a relatively rare event in the January night sky next week.

At this week's AAS national meeting, the society named UC Observatories Director Bruce Macintosh and two alumni, Laura Lopez ...

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

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

NASA and famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin say stargazers have the best chance of catching a glimpse of Saturn and Venus in ...