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Betelgeuse has dipped nearly half a magnitude since late January. Could it be headed for another Great Dimming Event? We also take a look at this spring's "other" eclipse.

Eclipse weather expert Jay Anderson shares the long-range outlook for eclipse day as well as instructions on how to look at weather forecasts closer to April 8th.

In a new study, scientists suggest an impact with a giant icy object could explain the formation of Mars's moons, Phobos and Deimos.

Here's how to safely see the "diamond ring," the dazzling burst of sunlight seen just before and after totality.

Faint, small galaxies ionized the opaque fog that obscured the early universe.

Antes de intentar fotografiar el eclipse con su smartphone, lea el consejo de estos expertos.

The Moon sidles up to bold Jupiter, then the delicate Pleiades, then the Castor and Pollux twins. Arcturus, ascending in the east, is probably the third-brightest star you've ever seen and that's including the Sun.

Space is hard, even when you don’t leave the ground.

Los fenómenos astronómicos y terrestres que no se debe perder durante el eclipse solar total del 8 de abril de 2024.

JWST has directly imaged two giant exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars. This discovery may reveal the fate of our solar system.

Wezen, a yellow supergiant more than 1,600 light-years from Earth, is also the tail of the Canis Major constellation.

As told in the latest episode of our long-running Sky Tour astronomy podcast, this month it’ll be challenging to a special kind of lunar eclipse on March 25th — but easy to spot five of the 10 brightest stars in the night sky.

It's early March, so the Winter Triangle balances on Sirius after dark. The Gemini twins float high across the meridian. Leo jumps the gun on spring.

The three new moons for Uranus and Neptune are each part of a "family," groupings that fragmented from a single parent object.

Totality may not be quite as dark as nighttime, but the difference between 99% obscuration and 100% is still night and day.

Find time this season to set aside your telescope and seek the night sky's ghostly glows.

Try this solar-eclipse experiment as you're watching the Moon cover up the Sun.

Models of the NASA's DART impact reshaping the asteroid moon Dimorphos show that this object is "rubble all the way down."

The Japanese space agency has reestablished contact with its SLIM lunar lander prior to sunset, enabling mission science to continue.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found that distant dwarf planets might be methane factories.

La eclíptica, dicho de manera simple, es el plano de la órbita de la Tierra alrededor del Sol.