ATLAS now a faint naked-eye object Moving across the constellation Ophiuchus in the evening sky, Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan ...

A meteor shower known for blazing fireballs is set to peak on Monday night into early Tuesday and could present a dazzling ...

Fireballs are typically caused by meteors more 3 feet (1 meter) long, according to NASA, making them appear brighter as they burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. The Southern Taurids are made up of debris ...

As seen from Earth, the massive gravitational lens creates multiple images of six of the seven background galaxies, each of whose light arrives to us by a slightly different path. If a “transient” ...

Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies — and will peak a week apart. The Southern Taurids will reach their zenith early Tuesday morning. and the Northern Taurids the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his long-exposure photographs from the International Space Station (ISS), recently ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this weekend, with sky charts, before it ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Friday, Nov. 1, with sky charts, before it disappears.

In celebration of Halloween, Hera’s HyperScout H instrument captures Earth in an eerie, spectral glow, showcasing our planet ...

The comet was discovered on September 27.

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...