The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

December 2024 will see a rare "black moon," a term for the second new moon in a calendar month. The second new moon of ...

A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic landers reached the lunar surface, largely intact. The most powerful ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is among the strongest and most consistent of the year giving people the chance to see up to 120 ...

If you're wondering where to see the northern lights in Ontario, see the recommended stunning locations promising a ...

There’s Orion, with its obvious Orion’s Belt of three bright stars rising vertically, with blue ... dark. Look east and there’s Jupiter, not as bright, but more dominant, shining all night ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

A "spectacular" meteor shower is expected to light up the night sky this weekend ... but instead just to the side in a dark area of the sky, to help you see more of the shower overall.

Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed into it a ton of astronomical and spaceflight ...

And the night sky tonight obliges ... gifts of longest nights and a sky more transparent than usual. Newcomers to astronomy often assume that winter's especially dark skies mean all forms of ...

More than a decade ago, dark matter experts Daniel Akerib ... scattered in the atmosphere that makes the blue sky. That's why we observe stars at night. Similarly, our instruments must contend ...