Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres in 1801. Initially classified as a planet, Ceres was later called an asteroid. In 2006, Ceres was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Piazzi's discovery makes him the ...

The loose open cluster NGC 7243 makes it worth learning the location of Lacerta the Lizard, now visible in the evening sky.

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

The Heart Nebula, cataloged as IC 1805 and also sometimes called the Running Dog Nebula, is a large star-forming region in ...

NASA’s TRACERS mission will launch to study Earth’s magnetic cusp, alongside Gilmour Space, Starlink, and climate science ...

NGC 6231 is the sky's sixth-brightest open star cluster. It's located in the Scorpius constellation. Amateur astronomers call ...

As the Moon reaches New, advanced observers can try photographing 3I/ATLAS while everyone can enjoy nebulae and more in the ...

Celebrate International Moon Day with Starmus by sharing your best Moon images. Submit via Instagram DM for a chance to be ...