Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Artemis II could send humans near the moon for the 1st time since 1972 and crowds are expected to flood the Space Coast to bear witness.

Here's how NASA plans to send four astronauts on a trip around the moon, the first time that anyone would travel this far from Earth since the end of the Apollo program in 1972.

The crew members of the nine Apollo missions to the Moon remain, to this day, the farthest-flung human beings in history. The Moon is, on average, 250,000 miles (400,000km) from the surface of the ...

NYC stargazers could be less than a week away from getting a glimpse of a comet blazing its way through the cosmos as Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS passes just 89 million miles from Earth.

New York City stargazers can look forward to a rare sun-grazer comet, the first manned moon mission in 50 years, and the Lyrids meteor shower during an active month of evening sky events this April, ...

In addition to visible light, we can also perceive the Sun in the infrared and ultraviolet spectrum. Likewise, like other celestial bodies, our star emits radio signals generated by its ...

NASA's Artemis II crew is ready for their 10-day moon mission, with launch scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, and an 80% 'go' weather forecast.

There’s something melodic about watching the sun rise over a rural stillness broken only by the rhythms of steel wheels on tracks.