The night sky will host one of autumn's best meteor showers at the start of the new week as the Orionids reach their annual ...

The story of Australia and its peoples is vast and deep. It's one you should know, but possibly one you've never been told. Well, not like this anyway.

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Comet Lemmon will be visible during October 2025 during the Orionid and Taurid meteor showers, creating a month of potential comets, "shooting stars" and fireballs. (2024's Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

It can start quite slowly. All you see at first is a faint lightening of the night sky, something easily mistaken for moonshine on clouds. But there’s this little flutter in your stomach because on ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

A large fire broke out Thursday night at a Chevron refinery, in El Segundo, the largest oil-producing facility on the West Coast, officials said. The fire turned the dark night sky orange in the area ...

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the innermost planet. A cormorant crosses the face of the full moon in ...

After sunset on Oct. 5, the bright waxing gibbous moon and Saturn will tango above the eastern horizon. The two will travel together through the sky all night. Neptune, which is visible only by ...