To catch the Geminids peak, look to the eastern sky all evening on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The meteors will appear near the bright planet Jupiter. With the darkest possible skies, you could see up to 120 ...

December is an exciting month for those who like to look up, with a comet, a meteor shower, and a conjunction between the ...

The Full moon, the Yule Moon, is on December 4. This is a supermoon, the second largest of 2025. The next evening, the moon ...

Rather than big bolts of lightning as seen on Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded audio of small zaps similar to those ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warns that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS might be a deliberately steered alien probe—an ...

On October 30, 2025, scientists around the world watched as the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to the ...

This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...

An international team, including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...