Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

It's a star! It's a comet! No, it's Uranus! On March 13, 1781, a German-born musician and astronomer named William Herschel, ...

This weekend, Uranus is in conjunction with Jupiter for the first time in over a decade. Although you can't see the meeting of the two with the naked eye, you can see with binoculars looking west ...

Friday, November 10 Comet C/2023 H2 (Lemmon) passes closest to Earth late today, coming within 0.19 astronomical unit, or AU, of our planet. (One AU is the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million ...

The bright K2 comet — previously the farthest active comet ever spotted — approaches the Earth on July 13 and 14. Here's what it is and how to see it.

Here's how to see a comet and/or the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction this weekend Find a dark sky and grab some binoculars to try your luck. To stream WLTX 19 on your phone, you need the WLTX 19 app.

One of the most famous comets is heading back in the direction of Earth. On December 9, 2023, Halley’s comet reached aphelion–its furthest point from the sun–made its turn towards our planet ...

A distant comet trapped in orbit between Saturn and Uranus is accompanied by a transforming disk of icy dust. Comments (1) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Uranus will be in opposition on Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. UTC, which translates to 10 a.m. ET and 7 a.m. PT. The best nights to view Uranus from an astrological standpoint will be Nov. 16 to 18, as that ...