Monica Young

Venus creeps up, Saturn sinks down. Mars meets the Moon. Orion comes into his own to rule the winter, and Sirius emerges below him.

Brand-new images from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawai’i reveal clouds beneath the haze on Titan.

NASA’s Mars Insight lander and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have witnessed two fresh new planet-probing impacts.

OSIRIS-REX’s visit to the asteroid Bennu revealed that this little world is more rubble pile than solid rock.

It’s tiny. It’s challenging. But you won’t get the chance to see Iapetus transit the globe of Saturn again until 2037!

The Moon becomes totally eclipsed, Corvus eyes Spica, Draco eyes Vega, and the last star of the rising Summer Triangle clears the horizon.

The full Flower Moon ducks inside Earth’s shadow in a total lunar eclipse this month. Prepare for all the highlights of the special event.

A visible glow from our sister planet’s nightside sheds new light on a 300-year-old observing enigma dubbed the “ashen light.”

How are stars born? One of the best places to test ideas about stellar birth is in the Orion molecular cloud complex.

The James Webb Space Telescope has unfolded its primary mirror, marking the end of the deployment phase for the observatory.

Mercury draws close to Saturn low in twilight. Jupiter watches from above. The Moon waxes through first quarter. Mars is up before dawn.

Gravitational waves offer a test of whether supernovae can produce black holes between 55 and 120 times the Sun’s mass.

This week in astronomy news: A citizen scientist happens upon an ancient brown dwarf and astronomers discover that Sun-like stars eat their own planets.