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

LOFAR radio sky survey map of the universe reveals colossal collisions, strange stars, and cosmic signals never before seen ...

Behold the limitless, crowded cosmos. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey has put out its latest data release, increasing the size of the largest 2D sky map. The ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

It took the most recent telescope launched by American space agency NASA just six months to put together a full infrared map of the entire sky – actually, not just a single map, but 102 of them, each ...

Comet MAPS is about to face its ultimate test as it sweeps just 101,000 miles above the sun's surface.

Only a lucky few get to see a view this gorgeous. If you live somewhere that's too bright to enjoy the stars, you're definitely not alone. Light pollution is rampant, and it can make stargazing nearly ...

The Sky Map application from Google turns Android phones into a stargazing tool with the click of a button. And a new "time travel" feature lets you see images of the sky from the past and the future.

Google has released an updated version of its Sky Map app for Android with two significant updates. First, there’s now support for multitouch gestures allowing you to zoom or rotate the display using ...

A space observatory designed to map the entire sky over a period of two years to further our understanding of the early universe has started snapping images. SPHEREx, which launched in early March, ...