Auroras May Dance Over the U.S. Thursday Night, June 4-5 
A Globular Season Surprise – Sky & Telescope 
Venus, Jupiter Converge in Stunning June 9th Dusk Conjunction 
Lost in the Star Clouds — A Milky Way Odyssey 
NASA’s Psyche Sends Back Amazing Images of Mars 
Auroras May Dance Over the U.S. Thursday Night, June 4-5
There's almost nothing as thrilling in skygazing that watching a spectacular aurora. I took this scene on Nov. 12, 2025....
A Globular Season Surprise – Sky & Telescope
The globular cluster Messier 54 is probably the core remnant of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, which merged with our...
Venus, Jupiter Converge in Stunning June 9th Dusk Conjunction
On May 28th, Jupiter (left) and Venus were 11.5° apart when they met their reflections on a lake near Duluth,...
Lost in the Star Clouds — A Milky Way Odyssey
The summer Milky Way tilts up into the southeastern sky before dawn on April 19th from Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Dark...
NASA’s Psyche Sends Back Amazing Images of Mars
A processed view of Mars as seen by the Psyche mission on approach. The mission’s multi-spectral imager saw extensions in...
Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky
Stonehenge Sanjay Nair / Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0 Every year, on the June solstice, thousands gather at Stonehenge to...
SMILE: European Space Weather Mission Launches
A new mission just launched to probe the interactions of the solar wind with our local space-weather environment, called the...
Moon, Planets Gather in a Twilight Spectacle May 18-20
Venus (left) and the crescent Moon appear in a gap between cirrus clouds at dusk on July 15, 2018. This...
From trusted aide to biggest rival: Suvendu Adhikari set to become West Bengal chief minister
A former ally of Mamata Banerjee, the BJP leader will be West Bengal’s next chief minister.
The Make America Healthy Again Movement Comes for Hospital Food
Hospital food rarely draws rave reviews. But efforts by the Trump administration to get hospitals to ditch unhealthy fare are...