This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic.

A crescent Moon is about to sink under the western horizon in this sea and night skyscape.

On November 17, just an hour before sunrise, this bright and colorful meteor flashed through clear predawn skies.

Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster IC 1590.

What creates the colors in Jupiter's clouds? No one is sure. The thick atmosphere of Jupiter is mostly hydrogen and helium, elements which are colorless at the low temperatures of the Jovian cloud tops.

Why is 'Oumuamua differing from its expected trajectory? Last year, 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua became the first known asteroid from interstellar space to pass through our Solar System.

This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit.

It was Halloween and the sky looked like a creature.

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Last Sunday when the Moon was young its sunlit crescent hung low near the western horizon at sunset.