Some Utahns got a glimpse of a real phenomenon Saturday night: a meteor barreling through the Earth's atmosphere — so big ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

Any day now, a massive stellar blast could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a telescope to see it. Sound familiar? In case you're wondering, yes, this is the same so-called ...

At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

A celestial leap is set to take place over two nights as the moon and Jupiter will appear to dance near to each other in the ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

With up to 60 meteors per hour under perfect conditions during the peak night, the Eta Aquariids are considered a strong ...