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Why We Look Up with Jennifer Willis

Why We Look Up: Celestial Resolutions

Look to the stars to inspire and bolster your New Year's resolutions.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) over Mexico

Explore the Night with Bob King

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) — Catch it if You Can

Grab your binoculars for a chance to see Comet ATLAS as it plunges toward perihelion.

Rim of Jezero Crater

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson

NASA's New Plans For Returning Samples from Mars

As Perseverance continues to explore Mars, the NASA and ESA agencies are deciding how best to retrieve the samples it has been collecting.

Mars and Olympus Mons

Explore the Night with Bob King

Mars Extravaganza — Occultation and Opposition Rolled into One!

Mars is big and bright again! In a spectacular preview to its upcoming opposition, the full Moon occults the Red Planet on January 13th.

IMAP spacecraft

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson

Space Missions to Watch in 2025

Space-weather sentinels, commercial lunar missions, and lots of planetary flybys are on tap this year.

Quadrantid shower

Explore the Night with Bob King

Watch Quadrantid Meteors Fly and the Moon Occult Saturn

The annual Quadrantid meteor shower kicks off the new year under moonless skies. European observers will see the Saturn occultation in person; the rest of us via livestream.

Comet C/2024 G3

Explore the Night with Bob King

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) Kicks off the New Year — What to Expect

The Southern Hemisphere should get a good show of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3). Mid-northern latitude observers not so much.

Southern Stargazing with Jonathan Nally

Exploring the Constellation Tucana

Take a closer look at the stars and deep sky objects in this southern constellation.

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson

See NASA's Lucy Mission Fly Past Earth Tonight

NASA’s Lucy mission makes another visit to Earth Thursday night, en route to explore the Trojan asteroids.

Geminid in moonlight

Space Missions

Don't Let the Bright Moon Ruin Your Geminids

Strategies for making the most of this week's Moon-soaked Geminid meteor shower.

Jupiter outbreaks

Explore the Night with Bob King

You're Invited to Jupiter's Big, Bright Opposition Bash

Don't let the cold keep you inside — Jupiter beckons with a brand new storm!

Proba 3

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson

Proba 3 Mission Launches to See the Solar Corona

The pioneering observatory will use two spacecraft to create artificial solar eclipses from Earth orbit in order to study the solar corona.

Why We Look Up with Jennifer Willis

Why We Look Up: Starlit Generations

The gift of a new telescope bridges generations.

Observing with 20-inch Dob

Explore the Night with Bob King

Hunting Dwarf Galaxies in the Sooner State

A dark-sky quest leads to encounters with two Milky Way companion galaxies and other dim delectables.

Spica reappearance Chicago

Explore the Night with Bob King

Watch the Moon Occult the Pleiades, Spica too!

The Moon crosses the Pleiades this week, then heads east for the year's most dramatic Spica occultation.

Constellation diagram depicts Grus, the Crane

Southern Stargazing with Jonathan Nally

Get to Know the Southern Constellation Grus, the Crane

Take a flight through Grus, one of the famous “southern birds” constellations.

Why We Look Up with Jennifer Willis

Reclaiming the Beginner’s Mind of Stargazing

Sometimes the obstacles in our path — such as clouds and light pollution — steer us not away from our goals but on a more meaningful path toward them.

a black dot surrounded by a swirling disk of hot gas, which is being siphoned from a nearby orange star

The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle

Newfound Stellar Companion May Explain Black Hole System

Astronomers have identified a distant stellar tagalong to the binary system V404 Cygni.

HLS on the Moon

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson

NASA Announces Potential Sites for Artemis 3 Mission to the Moon

NASA has chosen nine potential landing sites near the Moon’s south pole for Artemis 3’s crewed lunar landing.

PG 1634+706 quasar

Explore the Night with Bob King

Find a Quasar in the Sky Tonight and Time Travel to the Early Universe

Travel to the faraway and long ago by riding a quasar's beam.