Find out what's up in your night sky during August 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide. Looking for a ...

Use a Star Map or Chart A star map (or star chart) is basically a cheat sheet for the night sky. It helps you figure out where constellations and bright stars are at any given time.

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

A new set of data strengthens the case that dark energy’s influence on the universe—long believed to be constant—is actually ...

The headlines are popping up across the web alerting stargazers to the upcoming Black Moon that will rise with sun early on ...

The full maps of the sky this telescope is about to create over the next two years will be unlike anything attempted before. Whereas the now-retired Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), for ...

Cherry Springs State Park is the closest official dark sky park in the region, located near Coudersport, Pennsylvania. It is ...

Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as the International Space Station. Here's how to use it.

Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies ...