The Aquarids meteor shower is set to peak this week. Everyone in the U.S. will have a chance to catch a glimpse.

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the coming months.

Astronomers are excitedly waiting for the arrival of a new light in the sky this year that appears once every 80 years. The ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked eye sometime in the coming months. When it happens, the nova will ...

All of Alaska and North Dakota and most of Montana, Minnesota and Wisconsin could catch Sunday night’s northern lights, ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower in 2025 is an astronomical phenomenon that is active from April 15 and will remain until May 27, reaching its peak during the night of May 5 to 6 In f ...

The Croc's Eye and Whirlpool galaxies shine in astrophotography captured by Vermont-based night sky enthusiast Dr. Michele ...

The Full or Flower Moon is on May 12. The Moon is Last Quarter, rising at midnight, on May 20. On the 22nd, the waning ...

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

In advance of a star called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) or the “Blaze Star” exploding in a very rare event, NASA is advising ...

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...