The hours following sunset on Dec. 25 offer a wealth of naked-eye astronomy targets that can put even the most glitzy Christmas lights to shame, especially when viewed from a dark sky location.

Use telescopes and binoculars to observe a crescent moon, Jupiter as a 'Christmas star', star clusters and more — now is a great time to go night sky viewing.

What does it take to pursue a cosmic bullet? This week, scientists are on the case as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its ...

Hyderabadis braved record low temperatures over the weekend to observe the Geminid meteor shower, which peaks in Dec. While ...

The Star and Geminids Party is scheduled for Dec. 13 at Fort Frederick State Park. Tri-State Astronomers and Maryland Park Service rangers will host the event from 4:30 to 10 p.m., according to a ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows represent bright and warm parts of Saturn’s atmosphere, while the purple areas ...

Day 6 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Shell of a Dying Star. About 1,500 light-years from Earth, a dying star at the heart of planetary nebula NGC 1514 is performing a spectacular ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet formation ...

Stephan's Quintet, discovered in 1877 by French astronomer Edouard Stephan in the constellation Pegasus, exemplifies the enhanced detail observable through larger astronomical apertures. The group ...

Whether you want a basic scope or a more advanced system, Amazon has tons of Celestron models for the lowest prices of the year during Cyber Monday. By Stan Horaczek Published Nov 30, 2025 9:42 PM EST ...

Astronomers have revealed a cosmic butterfly to mark 25 years of a powerful space telescope. Students voted for the Gemini South telescope in Chile to image NGC 6302, a billowing planetary nebula, to ...

Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...