Two small comets are starting to make an appearance in the evening sky. Both Comet SWAN and Comet Lemmon were discovered earlier this year and can be seen in the western sky.

Now that we are well into the fall season, the constellations Pegasus and Andromeda have risen up high into the eastern sky.

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On Sept. 15, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 25th successful flyby of the sun. It passed only 3.8 million miles from the solar surface at a speed of 430,000 miles per hour. The spacecraft will...

Saturn is in opposition now. At this point Saturn is opposite of the sun in our sky, so it rises near sunset. Then the planet is in the sky all night long. You will find it high in the southern sky at...

NASA scientists recently pointed the Web Space Telescope towards the constellation Scorpius and focused it on the Lobster Nebula.

The Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting around Uranus.

if you want to see Pegasus, face the eastern sky around 9 p.m. There are four stars here in the shape of a square. This is known as the Great Square of Pegasus.

Almost a year ago, NASA launched a probe towards Jupiter's moon Europa. The Europa Clipper has made good progress since then.

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Saturn is moving further west and is therefore rising earlier and earlier. This week is a good one to spot the ringed planet. The gibbous moon will be near the planet on Aug. 11 and 12. Face the southeast sky around 11 p.m. The moon should be obvious as it rises higher in the sky.... Read more »

You may have heard about the recent discovery of a comet that is not from our neighborhood. Comet Atlas was seen about a month ago. It is named for the telescope system that was used to discover it, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System or ATLAS. Astronomers quickly realized this was no ordinary object. Its... Read more »