A streak of lights gliding silently across the velvet night sky—some people gasp in awe, others sigh in dismay. This isn’t a ...

The Lyrids meteor shower can be spotted in the Lyra constellation. They appear to originate near the star Vega, which is the ...

Astronomers and philosophers have long speculated on the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars.  In the 1990s the ...

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Saturn and the moon will appear as a "space smiley" above Wyoming on Friday morning for ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

The air is cool, the high desert is nearly completely silent, and the Milky Way stretches like glitter across the sky ...

Wasn't great last night, but caught a few meteors crossing the sky in the Lyrid meteor shower with a "Star Trails" capture on ...

As my teaching and writing careers end in the next few weeks, I’m trying to suppress a feeling of quiet despair.

The I-Team tracked Chicago energy usage with an exclusive look inside the clean energy compound. On a swath of land about three-and-a-half hours southwest of downtown Chicago, on what was once soybean ...

The city council proclaimed that the city will observe "Dark Sky Week," encouraging residents to turn out the lights to see ...

As we move through the year and check celestial events off the calendar, there are still six meteor showers left to see in ...