Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Rome said he just managed to capture an image of a small asteroid - labeled 2019 UB8 - coming very close on October 29, at about half the moon's distance. Details here.

Venus passes its descending node on Friday at 2 UTC. What is it? And why does astronomer Guy Ottewell say that nodes "shape the orbits of the moving bodies and set them up for whatever else happens" ... ?

Charts and insights about this week's Orionid meteor shower from astronomer Guy Ottewell.

Nebula IC 63 - in the direction of our constellation Cassiopeia - is slowly dissipating under the influence of ionizing ultraviolet radiation from a hot, luminous variable star known as Gamma Cas.

Northern and Southern Hemisphere views of Venus from October 2019 to June 2020, and some insights on the coming view of Venus in the evening sky.

The stars are accessible to everyone, but where can you get the most from the night sky? Here are 10 great dark-sky places - mostly in the U.S. but also in Australia, New Zealand and Chile - for skywatching and stargazing.

You can think of the equinox not as a whole day, but as a point along Earth's orbit. Want to understand that better? Guy Ottewell offers some insights.

September 22 is the equinox. The word means "equal night." Days and nights are nearly equal now at the equinox, but not quite. Here's why. Also, we've got a new word for you, "equilux." It's the word for when day and night are, in fact, equal.

Learn what it would be like to travel to Chile - sometimes called astronomy's world capital - in this final report from Robert Pettengill with the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program. Thank you for your dispatches, Rob!

Jupiter and Saturn have appeared close on our sky's dome throughout 2019, but they're due to get even closer in the coming months. Their conjunction will come on December 21, 2020. Here's how to watch them.