New Moon brings excellent dark-sky conditions for observing galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters in the sky this week.

Also known as the enigmatic "hidden galaxy," IC 342 is a big barred spiral with low surface brightness in the constellation ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the early morning hours of May 22 and observe a close pairing of Venus and the Moon. About once a month these two ...

DEET won’t keep a mosquito from approaching, but it can stop her (all mosquitoes that suck blood are female) from biting by ...