Jupiter reaches a stunning opposition, Mars is brilliant, Saturn and Venus light the evening sky, and Mercury rises before ...

As winter settles in and the days grow shorter, December’s night sky offers some of the most spectacular celestial displays ...

Pop quiz! How long is the average year? If you said “365 days”, then congratulations! You’re wrong. If you said “365.25 days” ...

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. New clues in Earth’s northernmost ...

Astronomers have discovered TIDYE-1b, the youngest known transiting planet, estimated to be a mere three million years old.

In 1936 astronomers watched as FU Orionis, a dim star in the Orion constellation, brightened dramatically. The star’s ...

Since the first modern SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) studies tried to detect alien transmissions in the ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft — including 12 with direct-to-smartphone capability — lifted off from Cape ...

Today: We are just a few days away from the earliest sunsets of the year in Ellensburg, meaning it is getting dark as early ...

On November 24, 1639 (according to the calendar in use then), the transit of Venus was recorded for the first time by English ...