If you’re a night owl, the 79.5% moon will be in conjunction with Jupiter in the early hours of Feb. 27 (around 01:30 AM ET).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children love looking up at the stars and imagining distant galaxies, but with just their eyes, they can only see so much.

Find out what's up in your night sky during February 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

In a former cattle field in rural central Texas, a startup called Starfront has quietly built what it claims is the world’s largest remote telescope observatory by number of scopes. The facility ...

When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on California’s Palomar Mountain. What a behemoth! At the time I enjoyed using a 4.25 ...

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, and all in a truly new way. In its first 10 ...

The Draconid meteor shower, which peaks on Wednesday, Oct. 8, can be viewed from the United States and produces up to 10 shooting stars per hour, NASA reports. The problem? The nearly full moon might ...