Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud tops of the gas giant Jupiter as the Galilean moons Io and Europa pass ...

From "How to Train Your Dragon" to the Holst of his generation — this composer's grand tribute to four of the solar system's greatest wonders is ready to be heard. When you purchase through links on ...

One of those objects is M63, also known as the Sunflower Galaxy. It lies relatively close to the constellation’s alpha star, magnitude 2.9 Cor Caroli. From this sun, move your telescope 5.3° to the ...

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Pottsville winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact you should be able to easily see it long before twilight fades.

The Galilean moon Callisto disappears behind Jupiter in an occultation early this morning. The catch is that the event is only visible from the western half of the U.S., but observers farther east can ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...