Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

The famous Perseids shower will peak in mid-August. Until then, two other meteor showers will light up the sky. We’re aiming ...

The legendary Perseid meteor shower is now underway, but don't wait until its peak in August to start looking up — as we all ...

Cosmology is currently in a crisis known as the Hubble tension: the local universe appears to be expanding about 10% faster ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Astonished Scots have captured a meteor streaking and burning brightly across the night sky. The orange light and accompanying bang was spotted at about 00:50 by people on the Isle of Lewis, Stirling, ...

Every year, thousands of people visit Summit County to experience all the beauty that the Colorado Rocky Mountains have to ...

A comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, with 3I short for "third interstellar," sparked immediate excitement on July 1 when it was ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into ...