Tag: astronomy

Just before sunrise, the moon, Venus, and Regulus clustered tightly along the ecliptic, dazzling skywatchers and creating a pre-dawn show.

It's the annual show of shooting stars as Earth passes through the trail of dust and debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle.

One of the most spectacular meteor showers peaks Sunday night: between 50-100 shooting stars per hour under optimal viewing conditions.

The aurora borealis sky show was visible further south in the U.S. than usual in early June. Keep watching those solar activity forecasts.

A total lunar eclipse put a blood moon in the US skies Tuesday morning, just before people headed to the polls to vote in the US mid-term elections.

Friday morning's partial lunar eclipse was one of the longest partial lunar eclipses ever and the longest in several hundred years.

Viewers in the Northern Hemisphere could see Jupiter and Saturn really close to each other this week.

The large, iconic Arecibo scope can't be fixed safely. A big set of ears on the cosmos now hears only silence.

In October, before we start seeing the bright constellations of winter at a decent hour, the winged horse flies across the sky.

A new telescope at the National Solar Observatory snapped the most detailed pictures of the sun's surface we have ever seen.