Sky

A meteor has rocked the skies of western Cuba, exploding mid-air, shattering windows and raining charred meteorite rocks on people’s homes. Before its spectacular demise, the space rock was seen flying above...

Glowing sunset lenticular clouds over Prulland, Spain on January 13, 2019. via Instagram These lens-shaped clouds typically form where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a...

What does the sun do at the Pole? Well it walks parallel to the horizon level without rising or setting! This amazing timelapse shows the sun circling around the...

The end of the Milky Way as we know it may come a few billion years ahead of schedule. Scientists have recently shown that our home galaxy appears to be on a crash course...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. The habitable...

Today China successfully landed a rover on the farside of the Moon. The Chang'e 4 lunar probe touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the largest, deepest and oldest known crater in...

2019’s first new moon falls on January 6 at 1:28 UTC - on the night of January 5 for time zones in the Americas. This new moon will pass between the Earth and...

The sun has been without spots every day for almost two weeks. No sunspots? No problem: A G1-class geomagnetic storm erupted last night, sparking bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. Yes very weird indeed! Here some amazing northern lights captured in Alaska:

A transformer explosion lit up the night sky in New York City on Thursday, turning the skyline bright blue for a moment and frightening residents in the process. The fire broke out at...

This is the season for southern noctilucent clouds. Every year around this time, summertime water vapor billows up into the high atmosphere over Antarctica, providing moisture needed to form icy clouds at...

Yesterday, was winter solstice, the shortest day of 2018. Today is a full moon known as the Cold Moon. There's a northern autumnal chill in the air too. That means it's time to...

Watch this spectacular halo display slowly intensifying and disappearing on Fichtelberg mountain, Saxony, Germany on December 16: Spectacular halo display on Fichtelberg mountain, Saxony, Germany on December 16....

The night sky will come alive this weekend when a green comet streaks by Earth on the heels of the Geminid meteor shower's display of green fireballs. The...

When a blazing fireball from space exploded over Earth on July 25, scientists captured the first-ever seismic recordings of a meteor impact on ice in Greenland.  When a...

Two bright fireballs lit up the skies Monday evening, widely visible from D.C. to New York. Out of this world! Two bright fireballs illuminate East coast of USA from...

Looks as if Mother Nature is in the holiday spirit! The atmosphere decided to put up lights of its own Sunday evening in Beloit, Wisconsin, where colorful columns of light shone in...

Huge fireball disintegrates over Mexico City on December 8, 2018. Picture: Youtube That must have been a powerful experience! Watch this meteor illuminating the sky over Puebla, Morelos,...

A strange green light flashing across the sky has baffled local residents and led one expert to say he had seen nothing like it before. The video was shot in West Australia during an intense...

On Dec. 16th, Comet 46P/Wirtanen will approach Earth less than 1.5 million km away–making it one of the 10 closest-approaching comets of the Space Age. It's a small comet, with a nucleus barely 1...

Do black holes glow when they collide? When merging, co-orbiting black holes are sure to emit a burst of unusual gravitational radiation, but will they emit light, well before that, if they are surrounded...

An unusually smooth and reflective Martian rock has caught the attention of NASA scientists, prompting an investigation by the Curiosity rover. With the spectacularly successful landing of the InSight probe on Mars earlier this week,...

Some 3,700 years ago, a meteor or comet exploded over the Middle East, wiping out human life across a swath of land called Middle Ghor, north of the Dead Sea, say archaeologists who have...

This sundog captured in the city of Västeras, Sweden is just magic... And the Arch at the end of the video ist just transcendental! And here in pictures: A sun dog (or sundog), formally called a...

This strange sky phenomenon was captured by two witnesses in the sky over Centennial, Denver, Colorado on November 24, 2018. What the heck is going on there? Of course there is a plane. But why is the...

A mysterious flash of light, described by some as an explosion, was spotted in the skies over Southern California Tuesday morning. There was no immediate word from officials on what may have caused the...

Newly-discovered Comet Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto (C/2018 V1) has sprouted two tails as shown in this amazing Gif image by Michael Jaeger of Jauerling, Austria, on Nov. 18th as the comet was gliding through the star fields...

Earth hides its scars well; the planet has endured countless millennia of eruptions and collisions, but scientists are still stumbling upon the evidence of all that geologic drama. Now, a giant crater nearly 20...

So what's going on with that 'Hurricane of Dark Matter?'. It’s the perfect science-fiction device: a hurricane of dark matter. Recent, real-life research has demonstrated that our Sun is currently engulfed in a so-called...

The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018, and the sun’s ultraviolet output has sharply dropped. New research shows that...

There's a new comet in the morning sky. Discovered just last week by three amateur astronomers, Comet Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto (C/2018 V1) has quadrupled in brightness over the past few days. "It is now glowing like...

On Aug. 2nd, 1972, giant sunspot MR11976 began to explode. The 1972 solar storm is legendary at NASA because it occurred in between two Apollo missions. Turns out, it's legendary in the Navy, too....

An unusual and strange purple glow is increasingly being reported illuminating the sky over different places in the United States. But the reason behind thise weird sky phenomnon remains unclear. Here some witnesses' testimonies...

A pair of so-called "ghost moons" have been documented orbiting our planet and they're not far from the moon we all look up and see in the night sky. These false moons are hazy clouds...

A variety of news outlets have been reporting this week that Harvard scientists say 'Oumuamua' might be an alien visitor. And in fact, the researchers did say that! On October 19, 2017, a strange object...

Have you ever seen such a thing? This giant ring anomaly was recorded on a flight from Chicago to New York on October 29, 2018. Do you think it is fake? Or do you think it...

A NASA image of Jupiter shows a mysterious green anomaly hovering above the surface of Jupiter. The green color probably is the effect of ionizing radiation, like bright auroras? Some will say, this glowing green...

Are these pictures showing an eruption of Arsia Mons, a Mars volcano thought to be inactive? This image captured by the Mars Express orbiter of ESA on October 18, 2018 really looks like an ash...

And suddenly the night sky became red... blood red! Awesome picture by Ruslan Merzyakov in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Ruslan Merzyakov explains:'Night till Monday was totally mind blowing. Never have I...

But what are these mysterious lights captured in the sky over Cambodia? Army flares? UFO Spaceship? And what about the weird accompanying noise? Really strange stuff! By the way, you can support your Strange Sounds by becoming...

The sky was on fire in October 2018... And we have not seen the Orionids' peak (21-22 Oct.) yet! Here a compilation of the most amazing fireball videos from around the world... Meteor over Japan...