KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Early Sunday morning, NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission is to help astronomers search for dark energy and planets.

Friday6Pluto is stationary in Capricornus at 7 A.M. EDT. This evening, the Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth ...

TRAVERSE CITY — NMC’s J. H. Rogers Observatory celebrates its 45th anniversary and the college’s 75th Saturday, Oct. 17. A ...

The Roman Space Telescope realizes an idea conceived at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab. A Berkeley astronomer now leads a large ...

At stargazing events, I have people look at various celestial objects through a telescope.This includes not only the moon and ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has demonstrated remarkable pointing stability and given its powerful planet-imaging coronagraph its first look at the cosmos. The telescope can already stay locked on a ...

It's best viewed when highest above the southern horizon, in the hour on either side of local midnight. The planet reveals a disk 20″ across in a telescope. Resist the inclination for high ...

On October 4, 2026, Saturn reaches opposition, creating ideal conditions for skywatchers to observe the planet. Saturn will rise at sunset, reach its highest point around midnight, and remain visible ...

Saturn’s rings are beginning to show themselves again since 2025, so consider this all the more reason to head outside ...

On October 4, find a spot with a clear view of the sky, wait until after sunset and look for Saturn, which will be the bright planet as it rises.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft’s fuel load will last twice as long ...

In 1959, Nancy Grace Roman became the first chief of astronomy at NASA. She worked tirelessly to advocate for space telescopes to study the Universe. Her leadership and perseverance paid off with some ...