December is a busy month between the holiday season, the winter solstice and the occasional aurora borealis. It also hosts one of the best meteor showers of the year, with the Geminids. This often ...

Astronomically speaking this is the date and time of the Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere and the Summer Solstice ...

An astronomer in Italy caught a fortuitous image of the bright comet Lemmon seemingly entwined with the glowing trail of a "shooting star." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Each month, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights ...

Bright fireballs may be streaking across the night sky in the coming days as the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak at an almost perfect time when the moonlight will be very low. The Leonid ...

The Geminids meteor shower peaks on the evening of Saturday. During its peak, the AMS says that it can spit out upwards of 150 meteors per hour, although NASA predicts a much tamer 40 to 50 meteors ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, believed to have originated from outside our solar system, was first detected in July 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope and has sparked curiosity among scientists.

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the ...