With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

As we move through the year and check celestial events off the calendar, there are still six meteor showers left to see in ...

Mars resides in the last of these star groups during April’s first ... and the Sun illuminates 28 percent of its Earth-facing hemisphere. Like Venus, Mercury passed through inferior conjunction ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

When we see a “shooting star,” it’s actually the glowing ... the Eta Aquarids are best seen in the southern hemisphere due to the viewing location, as they are higher up in the sky in ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is an annual night sky display where stargazers can witness up to 20 'shooting stars' an hour during ...

121, No. 878, 2009 April A Search for Astrometric Companions to S... ABSTRACT.Thirteen nearby stars from the former University of Virginia Southern Parallax Program were tested for possible ...

There's an exciting reason to gaze up at the sky tonight: the Lyrids meteor shower. Formed out of remaining particles from Comet Thatcher, the Lyrids meteor shower is visible every April as Earth ...