In late September, 40 amateur astronomers and photographers from all over India converged on the tiny hamlet of Hanle, in ...

One of the most spectacular meteor showers in Earth's skies is about to peak, and the observing conditions couldn't be better ...

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

The Orionid meteor shower peaks during a new moon, Comet Lemmon gets closest to Earth and a crescent moon slides past Mercury ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the innermost planet. A cormorant crosses the face of the full moon in ...

The night sky will host one of autumn's best meteor showers at the start of the new week as the Orionids reach their annual ...

The first-ever detection of heavy water in a planet-forming disk around a young star offers evidence that the water predates ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin stargazers are in for a rewarding week of celestial events — including the peak of ...

If you’ve ever wanted to know what you’re actually looking at, or just wanted to find cool things like the International ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

To photograph the comet, Alton Spencer left Danbury, finding darker and elevated spots in Bridgewater and Warren.