To view this meteor shower, you’ll want to look at our eastern sky on the nights of December 13 th and 14 th. Typically, ...

The peak shower will appear to the east, coming out of the Gemini constellation, between 8 and 9 p.m. Saturday, and will last ...

The search for the biblical Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and astronomy, but a new claim from a NASA comet ...

The absolute best time to observe is when the radiant is at its highest in the sky, called “culmination”, which happens ...

Then there was the September discovery of C/2025 R2 (SWAN), a comet so bright that even when it was near the moon on ...

One of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year reaches its peak this week—giving skywatchers the chance to see up to ...

The Geminids are particularly spectacular because of the amount of meteors people can see. When stargazing from a dark ...

The emission of X-rays is usually the domain of the energetic events of the universe: hot stars, supermassive black holes, ...

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)'s backdrop is dominated by the Eagle Nebula — a vast cosmic structure of dust and hydrogen-rich gas ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

The meteor was captured at 6:46 p.m. on the Saltwater-Recon camera in Freeport, which was showing the San Luis Pass. There were clear skies across the Houston area, so you may have been able to see it ...

The Geminid meteor shower, considered one of the best of the year, is about to hit its 2025 peak in mid-December. Here's what to know.