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There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of galaxies and planets and brightly hued moons. The people who explore ...

A stellar two-fer: See two star clusters in the morning sky and bring a pair of binoculars. Last month I wrote about the constellation Orion. Using the three stars in the belt of Orion, follow the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Early risers on Sunday, June 22, are in for a pre-dawn treat ...

The new moon tonight turns the sky into a natural observatory, stripping away glare and letting Jupiter, Saturn and the winter constellations step into the spotlight. With the lunar disk effectively ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows a small section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, including two ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than that: they show an incredible diversity in size, shape, composition and even ...

It’s just a little guy, and not everyone agrees that it’s actually a mini-moon. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews has written a book about the science of planetary defense, and has written ...

evidence that these once were just 3 or 4 moons, minding their business, orbiting the planet like all regular saturnian moons do today. The 12 new-found moons are in irregular orbits that suggest they ...

A first look at the sky -- A tour of the sky -- The monthly sky maps -- The constellations -- Stars, Nebulae, and galaxies -- Double and variable stars -- Atlas of the sky -- The moon -- Finding the ...