Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Astronomers have spotted what they think might be an "interstellar object" hurtling through the solar system — and it's ...

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? July holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.

A meteoroid is a space rock, often from a comet or asteroid that’s floating through space. A meteor is a bright streak of ...

Multiple reports have come in from across the Carolinas about a possible meteor or fireball falling from the sky.