Scientist are expecting a "once-in-a-lifetime" nova explosion to occur and people across the United States should be able to ...

A star was born in 1935, when the Griffith Observatory became the first public observatory west of the Mississippi. Why it ...

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 ...

Astronomy enthusiasts are in for a treat as the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, active since April 15th, peaks on May 5th and 6th.

Driven by a deep passion for the northern lights, Dobrijevic describes the experience of seeing them in person as nothing short of magical — an awe-inspiring phenomenon that every person should ...

By Katrina Miller Our universe might be chock-full of cosmic wonder, but you can observe only a fraction of astronomical phenomena with your naked eye. Meteor showers, natural fireworks that ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a rare partial solar eclipse in April, unobservable from Earth, where the moon ...

It looks like Steve is actually a flow of hot gas moving much more quickly than the air around it, and while there's still a lot more to learn about the astronomical phenomenon, this is a good start.

The astronomical phenomenon was part of the Lyrid meteor shower that occurs annually in April. One of the planet’s oldest meteor showers, with sightings dating back as far as 687BCE, the burning ...

It’s an astronomy lesson that’s also a gorgeous sunset picture in the greatest city in the world,” Dr. Jackie Faherty, an ...

China has achieved a major milestone in astronomical research with the launch of the Jiao Tong University Spectroscopic Telescope (JUST) project. On Sunday, construction officially began on the ...