If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title ...

The shower is produced by Halley’s comet’s debris, and could offer strong viewing opportunities because the moon is new this ...

Unique to the Orionids, NASA notes, the meteors seen during this shower are particularly fast and bright. Furthermore, they ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of ...

The studies have identified bright "transient" objects that appeared in photographs but were not present in photographs taken soon after.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is currently a 5th-magnitude fuzzball low in the northwestern sky. This means that, from a dark site, sharp-eyed observers could glimpse it with their naked eyes. And it's ...

Polarization spectroscopy advances analytical capabilities, revealing molecular details through techniques like Raman, ...