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In 1878, Williamina Fleming immigrated to Boston from Scotland with her husband – but he abandoned her shortly after they arrived. Pregnant with their child, she began working as a maid in the house ...

Saturn dominates the predawn sky, while Mars is rising earlier each day. The Red Planet is still a bit challenging — can you ...

The contest features eight categories, prizes worth nearly $5,000, and a no-equipment-required entry path; submissions close June 22, 2026 ...

After 40+ years of development, design, construction, and delays, the Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, on ...

Now in Cancer, the Moon is not far from M44, the Beehive Cluster. Check out this lovely open cluster with binoculars or a ...

On May 19, 1939, Francis “Dick” Scobee was born in Washington State. Scobee joined the Air Force at age 18, taking night courses to earn a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering and getting an ...

The Moon sits between bright Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky, tracing out the plane of the ecliptic for all to see.

The SMILE spacecraft turns toward Earth's magnetic shield as the solar wind streams in from the Sun (left), in this artist's impression. Once on orbit, the joint ESA-Chinese Acade ...

The Moon is now just over two days old, a sliver of its eastern limb lit by the Sun as sunrise slowly crawls across the nearside. Catch the delicate crescent this evening, when it stands just 2° from ...

This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to look to the western sky on the evening of May 21 and see a crescent Moon near the open star cluster M44, also known as the ...

Springtime viewing of the zodiacal light will soon come to an end — so give it a try tonight, while the Moon won’t interfere. The zodiacal light appears as a soft, cone-shaped glow that spikes above ...