The Albuquerque Astronomical Society is bringing the night sky down to Earth with the Cosmic Carnival on Saturday, Nov. 1.

On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco ...

The month brings a spectacular lineup of celestial sights—including a rare chance to see Mercury without a telescope and a ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...

If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title ...

What we celebrate today as Halloween has its beginnings in a thousands-of-years old Celtic tradition based on the Seven ...

And considerably removed from this summer retinue, brilliant topaz Arcturus holds forth in solitary splendor in the western sky. Double color Probably the most colorful double star in the night sky ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

One of the classic constellations of the Pottsville night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horse is currently ...

The darkness of the night sky results from the finite, expanding universe, where light from distant stars has not yet reached ...

This one is active until November 20 and will peak next Wednesday night. It’s a weaker shower, producing around 10 meteors ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent ...