Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Halley’s comet is the most famous of this type ... Jupiter is rising in the East soon after sunset and will reach opposition, its closest approach to Earth in early December. The four Galilean moons ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

November's full moon, known as the Beaver Moon, will be the last supermoon of the year, and you can catch it next week.

You don’t need a telescope or binoculars to see the Leonids. To ensure good viewing conditions, you should go to the darkest ...

The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.

The comet was discovered on September 27.

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

From a readily visible comet to a regularly scheduled supermoon, October’s night sky was busier than usual, topped off with t ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...

For me there is little else that inspires such awe and wonder of the world -- and of life -- as celestial events.