From Death Valley to Great Basin - two Dark Sky Parks certified by DarkSky International - Park to Park in the Dark is Nevada ...

A blazing fireball lit up the night sky over Texas on Sunday, sparking confusion, awe-and a flood of social media posts-as residents across the state looked skyward.

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the ...

Daniel W.E. Green at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, suggests that comet SWAN will hover near magnitude of +6, ...

Shofar in the Park: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Elk Park, 2810 Jay Road, Boulder. Head to the pavilion to enjoy holiday-themed snacks, ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

On the day of the 2025 autumnal equinox, the sun rises almost exactly due east and sets to the west. The months that follow ...

P.M. EDT. On this date, the Sun appears directly above the equator and the Northern and Southern hemispheres receive the same amount of sunlight. The autumnal equinox also officially brings the ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

The south shore of St. Croix became a stage for stories about Anansi, the trickster spider of African and Caribbean and folklore, the djembe and other tales during “Astronomy by the Sea” Saturday ...

The GW190412 merger revealed a black-hole recoil moving faster than 50 km/s. Gravitational waves allowed its 3D motion to be reconstructed. A research group led by the Instituto Galego de Física de ...

Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States.