There's only a small window of time to catch the "smile" alignment. Roughly 45 to 30 minutes before sunrise on April 24 or ...

Texas stargazers can catch a rare "smiley face" in the sky on Friday, April 25. Venus, Saturn and the Moon will create the ...

Look to the eastern sky, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment thanks to the crescent ...

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

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it ...

Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in space, unmoored from any star—have been a topic of science fiction for a long time; both Star Trek and Space:1999 featured them in episodes.

This artist’s concept pictures the planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, as seen from close to the surface of one of them. Image credit: International Gemini ...

At a recent event in London, UK, I had the privilege of going hands-on with a pre-launch build of DOOM: The Dark Ages, which ...

If you love the stars, the planets, and everything in the sky, then be sure to check out the Southworth Planetarium on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus.