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Saturn arrives at opposition to the sun on the American evening of Sunday, March 21, making for great viewing.

Astronauts who set out to one day travel among the stars have sometimes - like famed moonwalker Buzz Aldrin - become stars in their own right on Earth.

The Big Bang was the beginning of the universe as we know it, most scientists say. But was it the first beginning, and will it be the last?

The producer/director of the new >i/i< movie hopes to send her massive IMAX cameras beyond low earth orbit.

Six years of Cassini observations shed light on Saturn's rings, magnetic shield.

NASA's sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been used to locate vintage space hardware lobbed to the moon in the 1970s by the former Soviet Union.

Interesting articles in our Community forum.

Two space station astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan despite stiff winds and freezing temperatures at their Central Asian landing site.

The Hubble Space Telescope has long been an icon of astronomy. Now a new IMAX movie is turning it into a 3D star.

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken many iconic images of the cosmos. But does Hubble show us what the universe really looks like?

NASA has unveiled a photo of Emerald Isle as it appears from space.

CoRoT mission finds gas giant exoplanet that most closely resembles Jupiter, Saturn.

A pair of primordial black holes have been spotted so far away that they likely formed relatively soon after the Big Bang, scientists announced Wednesday.

New image from Planck telescope shows cold interstellar dust reaching across Milky Way.

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! As one hemisphere warms, another cools… and so our passion for astronomy can sometimes wax and wane. Why not rekindle your viewing spirit by enjoying some lunar targets this weekend? If you don't think identifying lunar features with a small pair of binoculars is exciting – then think on this: Using the most simple form of optics, you are viewing details on a distant world that's a quarter of a million miles away! So what are you waiting for? Get out your binoculars and get ready to enjoy… and I'll see you in the backyard. (...)
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The moon will have close encounters this week with two star clusters: the Pleiades and Messier 35.