There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the  December Pottsville night skies. These long ...

Dec. 3 – The nearly full moon hides members of the Seven Sisters (Pleiades) star cluster between about 7 and 9 p.m. CST.

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

Astronomers are intensifying their scrutiny of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as new modeling data raises questions about ...

This year’s WTOP “Gift Ideas for Stargazers,” coincides with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, to possibly help get the best deals for that special someone on your holiday gift list that loves the ...

Jim Foerch doesn’t go by his full name when he’s working at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. His name tag says “Mr. Jim,” ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

Key Findings The moon once dismissed as the solar system's most hostile environment may now sit directly in the path of an ...

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 ...

Stars like our Sun have around the same overall density as water. But when a star collapses in its old age, and its material gets compressed by runaway gravity, the result is a brilliant white sphere ...