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The Leonid meteor shower is hitting its 2025 peak activity this November. What to know about the annual celestial display; ...

With solar activity likely to remain elevated for the next couple of years, more powerful geomagnetic storm events are ...

Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

The 2025 Leonid meteor shower peaks on November 16-17, offering a prime viewing opportunity with a thin crescent moon and ...

Columnist John Breunig fills a time capsule with moments from the opening of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center's new ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

New findings bolster the natural origin theory for comet 3I/Atlas. An observatory in South Africa detected radio frequency ...

An interstellar trespasser known as 3I/ATLAS is almost certainly a comet. So, why do so many people think it's ...

The JWST's MIRI detected a flare in Sagittarius A*, revealing for the first time in mid-infrared how an explosion occurs near ...