April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

And now, as the new space race heats up, spawning tens of thousands of satellites in orbit around the Earth, it only stands to make the visible night sky less so. Dimming stars are just one of ...

In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two celestial objects—like planets, the Moon, or stars—appear very close together in ...

When the moon is exactly on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun, you have a full moon ... Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!

Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...

A sky full of ads ... The Russian company Avant Space deployed what it called the "first space media satellite" into Earth's orbit. This satellite is a prototype for a "planned fleet of small ...

Here's what will be visible in the night sky in the United States in May 2025. On May 12, the skies will be treated to the Flower Moon, also known as the Corn Planting Moon, Milk Moon, Hare's Moon and ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

Passover coincides with the full moon ... out for shooting stars speeding outwards from this region and streaking across the sky. The Lyrid shooting stars are specks of space dust burning up ...

The European Space ... miles from Earth, charting the precise locations of nearly 2 billion stars. Because we have the positions and brightness and colors of 2 billion stars in the sky, we can ...

You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place ... moon pair up high with the twin stars Castor and Pollux in the Southern sky after dark. April 12: The full pink moon rises in the southeast ...