The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the strongest, and quickest, meteor showers of the year. Here’s what you need to know ...

The Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of the New Year, has the potential to be one of the year's best – if the weather ...

Scientists have made groundbreaking progress in understanding the dazzling auroras that light up the night sky. Using NASA’s KiNET-X experiment, researchers simulated auroral conditions by releasing ...

Effective vision is required for a range of duties on the Moon, including moving around the surface and gathering samples.

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

In 2025, the sky will be illuminated by 12 full Moons, plenty of meteor showers, four eclipses and three Supermoons. Here's a ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

Europa Clipper, which launched in October 2024, will get an energy boost around March 2025 when it flies by Mars, one of our closest neighbors. The spacecraft is slated to reach Jupiter in 2030, where ...

The best time to watch a meteor shower is in the early predawn hours, when the moon is low in the sky. Competing sources of ...