Look to the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Nov. 29 — you'll be able to see the moon shine close to the gas giant Saturn as Neptune lurks unseen nearby. The waxing gibbous moon ...

The moon reaches its first quarter phase on Friday (Nov. 28), marking a perfect opportunity to explore the half-lit lunar ...

Imagine a mysterious cosmic traveller, streaking through the dark, defying gravity, and causing an international uproar. Now, ...

When a faint green smudge appeared in images from a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 22, 2025, astronomers did not expect it to upend basic assumptions about how comets work. Yet ...

Bob Elliot was a professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire during the days when Hobbs Observatory on Beaver Creek Reserve came into being. Seemingly overnight there was a ...

The bright city lights make it hard to see stars in LA. Sure, you see lots of celebrities — we’re not talking about those kinds of stars — but Angelenos ...

Astronomers in the U.S. are tracking a rare comet—C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)—which is something quite special. While comets typically appear green or sometimes blue in sunlight. because of their different ...

"This comet was not supposed to survive its Oct 8th perihelion (0.33 AU)," Bartlett told SpaceWeather.com. "But it did survive, and now it is displaying a red/brown/golden color rarely seen in comets.

This Halloween, look high in the northeastern sky a few hours after sunset for the Ghost’s Goblet — the haunting open cluster NGC 559 in Cassiopeia the Queen. Formally cataloged as Caldwell 8, this ...

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing at the sky, tracing constellations and dreaming about what lay beyond. Now ...