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October's full moon — the Hunter's Moon — becomes full on Oct. 9, the same day that Mercury reaches its highest altitude in the predawn sky.

At the end of October and before Halloween the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun creating a partial solar eclipse, making the sun appear like a massive bite has been taken from it.

Newly discovered records of solar eclipses seen in the Eastern Mediterranean reveal how Earth's motion has evolved.

Legendary catadioptric telescope performance, view the stars and far-reaching deep sky objects. Universally loved by astronomers the NexStar 8SE has a strong heritage.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket aced a test flight today (Oct. 1), successfully delivering satellites to Earth orbit for the first time.

NASA will now work toward getting Artemis 1 on its way to the moon between Nov. 12 and November 27.

Martian ice caps dip and rise and it may be evidence of liquid water lurking underneath them But what keeps that water from freezing?

A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other.

Celebrate "International Observe the Moon Night" 2022 on Saturday (Oct. 1) virtually with livestreams or in person at an event near you.

Hurricane Ian regained strength as it barreled toward South Carolina on Friday (Sept. 30) after passing over NASA's Kennedy Space center spaceport in Florida a day earlier.

On Thursday (Sept. 29), the Senate unanimously confirmed Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman as chief of space operations for the Space Force.

An odd shield of supercharged gas protects dwarf galaxies from being ripped apart by the gravitational pull of the Milky Way, 30 years' worth of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal.

In the 65 years since humanity's first satellite, the number of those in orbit is causing issues for astronomy and space security.

A machine-learning algorithm has helped astronomers discover thousands of gravitational lenses predicted by Einstein.

Its reasonable price, motorized functionality and SkyPortal app make this a good telescope for beginners.

Earth From Another Sun offers a Starfield- and Halo-inspired approach to a space-based, first-person shooter.

Why are sunspots black? According to astronomers, it may be a big, cosmic optical illusion.

Stars differ in size, luminosity and distance from us. We discuss how astronomers measure these three values to understand the three-dimensional sky.

The brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius, Antares will appear below the moon on Friday evening.

NASA's Juno spacecraft skimmed close above the surface of icy Europa Thursday (Sept. 29), capturing a view of the crust that is just the start of our new study of this ocean world.

Firefly planned to send its Alpha rocket to orbit on a test flight early Friday morning (Sept. 30), and it ticked off a lot of boxes along the way — including engine ignition.