February offers a perfect view of Orion the Hunter. Spot its iconic Belt and Sword in the evening sky, with Sirius and ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope captured the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft when it was about 342,000 km (212,508 mi.) ...

From a planetary parade, the Orion constellation and the Artemis II mission set to launch, there are multiple skywatching ...

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...

NASA has scheduled the launch for the Artemis II moon rocket for no earlier than Feb. 8. WTOP will have details on the ...

Sunrise and sunset • Sun rises at 7:10 a.m. and sets at 5:21 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:36 a.m. and sets at 5:52 p.m. on the 28th Moon’s phases • Full “Snow Moon” on the 1st • New moon on ...

AlUla: Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Governorate launched a new initiative in collaboration with leading astrophotographers to highlight its position as a global destination for sustainable astrotourism, as ...

Under Samburu’s dark, silent skies, a growing wave of tourists is trading game drives for star beds and unforgettable nights of stargazing.

The solar system's two largest planets adorn the evening sky this month, while the smaller inner planets linger near the Sun ...

Four astronauts are scheduled to launch on a trip to fly around the Moon as early as Feb. 6 in the Orion spacecraft.

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries. The views were created by "piecing together more than one million images," ...