The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

The 2026 calendar has a few major standouts: a late-night total lunar eclipse, a particularly promising Perseid meteor shower ...

The next full moon will be the first of the new year 2026 - a supermoon that shines for days. Here's when and and where to ...

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)'s backdrop is dominated by the Eagle Nebula — a vast cosmic structure of dust and hydrogen-rich gas that glows with its own light, having been ionized by the radiation emitted ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile and was quickly ...

On Friday, an object that formed outside of our galaxy passes close enough to Earth that we have a chance to see it in the night sky. It’s taken the astronomy community by storm. What is Comet ...

Watching the aurora borealis (in the Northern Hemisphere) or aurora australis (in the Southern Hemisphere) is unforgettable.

Discover the highlights of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky with our guide to the top celestial sights to enjoy through binoculars between November 2025 and January 2026. Winter in the ...

IT'S January, the beginning of another year, and although we are in winter, the Earth will be closest to the Sun. The closest ...

North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern ...