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Astronomers have observed a pair of supermassive black holes set to collide in 250 million years.

December’s solstice brings the longest northern nights, and it’s a busy month for stargazers: the Geminid meteors, a visit from Comet Leonard, and a plethora of bright stars and constellations.

Proxima Centauri is the dimmest and smallest of the Alpha Centauri system, but it has the honor of being the nearest star.

Astronomers have watched a jet launch from a stellar-mass black hole inside the Milky Way.

Hi Alan, Here's my observation of NGC 1647 with the unaided eye. We do live in a semi-arid area, the southern Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, but my backyard is […]

While the Jupiter-Saturn-Venus line keeps shrinking, all kinds of deep-sky sights, naked-eye to telescopic, show themselves on these moonless evenings.

The first-ever planetary defense mission is now on its way to the asteroid Didymos and its moon, Dimorphos.

Small telescopes can reel in some big ones in the constellation Cetus, the Whale.

The Solar Orbiter mission will fly past Earth Friday night, setting up a dramatic sunward plunge.

Astronomers have observed an object like ‘Oumuamua — but unlike the first known interstellar visitor, this one is in the solar system.

Astronomers might have spotted a stellar-mass black hole in another galaxy — but not everyone agrees with what they found.

Shopping for gear to get started in astrophotography? Here's some sage advice before you max out all your credit cards.

Orion now rises in the east around 8 p.m. Will Betelgeuse or Rigel be the first of his bright stars to come up? That depends on your latitude; Los Angeles and Atlanta are balance points. The Pleiades and Aldebaran watch this scene from high above.

A Russian missile struck a defunct satellite early Monday morning, forcing International Space Station crew to shelter in place.

A quasi-satellite of Earth, named Kamoʻoalewa, might actually be a chip off our Moon.

North American observers can watch the Moon turn a reddish hue as it flirts with Earth’s shadow on the night of November 18–19 in the longest partial eclipse of the century.

Huge chunks and twisted slabs of dark glass are strewn across a patch of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Do they have a cosmic origin?

NASA has revealed the landing site for Intuitive Machines’ ambitious drilling mission, set to launch for the Moon in 2022.

Half a century ago, Mariner 9 – our first orbiter at another planet — showed us the real Mars.

Here's all you need to know to help us measure the size of Earth's shadow during the total lunar eclipse on Jan. 20–21, 2019.

Venus, Jupiter and Saturn highlight the dusk. Mercury and Mars are a dawn challenge. And get ready for the barely-almost-total eclipse of the Moon.