Astronomy

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young…

NEW YORK (AP) — The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but…

Christmas Eve 2025 arrives with a sky that’s doing the most — in the best way. Tonight’s waxing…

The best kind of Christmas present is one that keeps on giving. Launched four years ago today, the…

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric…

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes — including W. M. Keck Observatory…

The Lyrids’ radiant, the constellation Hercules, rises well before midnight, so meteors are visible all night, but are…

A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last…

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found…

A classical nova may look simple at first. A faint star brightens, sometimes enough for you to spot…

Topline Warmly-dressed skywatchers with clear skies should brace for some of the best meteor-watching of the year as…

Behold ‘Dracula’s Chivito,’ the Largest Planet Nursery Astronomers Have Ever Seen