Sky

A little dead star that dazzled us earlier this year is not done with its shenanigans. Magnetar SGR 1935+2154, which in April emitted the first known...

This week stargazers will be able to see up to 25 shooting stars per hour fly across the night sky as the Orionid Meteor...

Departing active region AR2775 unleashed a pair of C-class solar flares on Oct. 16th. The strongest (C3.5) propelled a cloud of plasma into space. It will not hit Earth....

NASA is warning of yet another five asteroids headed our way in the first half of this week, as the agency’s leading asteroid expert...

'The Elegant Skull', the face of Mexico's 'Day of the Dead' festival, appeared in a volcanic ash cloud during an eruption weeks before the annual...

A bright coronal mass ejection (CME) lumbered away from the Sun on Oct. 6th, captured in a movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory...

A fireball was spotted in the night sky above north-eastern Mexico on Tuesday, as Hurricane Delta made landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula and several...

Today is a big day for close-approach asteroids as three are set to skim past Earth. The largest could be up to 272 feet wide...

There was no eclipse on September 30, 2020. But still, as the full moon rose on that day, California’s wildfire-smoke-infused skies caused it to...

A superbolide was recorded flying over the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, Brazil on October 1, 2020. The official video...

The Earth is constantly in the line of fire from space rocks. Some pass us by, some crash through the atmosphere and burn up as bright fireballs soaring...

Two years ago, researchers announced the likely discovery of a large lake of water on Mars, underneath its South Pole. New observations have now confirmed that...

Gold miners in the Australian Outback recently discovered a gigantic meteorite crater dating to about 100 million years ago. Found near the Western Australian...

Two 100-meter-wide asteroids are set to cross Earth’s orbit within hours of each other on Friday, September 25, 2020. Meanwhile, another space rock the size...

China's new space plane returned to Earth on Sept. 6th. But it left something behind in orbit, an item of unknown character called "Object A" by...

Deep within the murky recesses of the asteroid belt, there lies a mysterious dwarf planet with properties that has long fascinated astronomers. A spacecraft orbited...

In the bizarre year that's 2020, another highly unusual event is headed our way. This year's Halloween full moon will be visible to the entire world, rather...

Is there life on Venus? Scientists detect traces of phosphine gas that could be coming from MICROBES in clouds swirling high in the planet's atmosphere. Traces...

We have not yet found all the large, potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, as highlighted by the recent discovery of a kilometer-size asteroid. Amateur astronomer Leonardo Amaral...

Tropical waves aren't the biggest storms in the Caribbean... But they produce some of the biggest lightning... On September 5, 2020, Frankie Lucena pointed his video...

California is burning like hell right now. And the fires are more visually menacing than usual, thanks to the rare pyrocumulus clouds the flames are...

It might be time to rewrite the history books. New research shows that the Carrington Event - a monster solar storm that hit Earth...

Thousands of people have rushed to a remote Santa Filomena in northeastern Brazil after hundreds of chunks of a huge meteorite began to fall 'like...

On August 28th, for only the 2nd time in 2020, Earth experienced a geomagnetic storm. The minor G1-class disturbance broke out when a stream of solar wind...

The near-constant bombardment of space rocks buzzing our planet continues, with planetary defenses alerted to a trio of asteroids measuring over 25 meters in...

On Aug. 22nd, the now hurricane Laura passed by Puerto Rico. Just as it was bearing down on the island, the intensifying storm fired off...

On Sunday, August 16, 2020, the asteroid, initially labeled ZTF0DxQ and now formally known to astronomers as 2020 QG, swooped by Earth at a mere 1,830 miles...

Did alien tech visit our solar system? Aliens? Or a chunk of solid hydrogen? Which idea makes less sense? 'Oumuamua' is a mysterious, interstellar object that...

What an incredible explosion over Shandong Province, China...  On Aug. 16th, the brightest fireball in years exploded in the atmosphere over the city of Linyi,...

The smoke ring was captured by baffled residents of Santa Clara, California during the heavy thunderstorms that engulfed the area on August 16, 2020. This...

For those asking, I do not have a good explanation. Seems like some kind of pileus cap trying to form, but I have not seen...

A strange, long, thin cloud cloud has again appeared over the 20-km high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. Scientists say the curious plume is not...

Don’t let Solar Minimum fool you. The sun can throw a major tantrum even during the quiet phase of the 11-year solar cycle. “In late...

Are these signs of the Endtimes? Is somebody trying to protect us from something terrible ahead? Are these warnings from an impending disaster? Two rare...

The out-of-this-world find is being hailed as a "scientific sensation." The meteorite was first dug up in 1989 and sat in a garden for decades...

One thing is clear! Solar Minimum is here, and it’s one of the deepest in a century! NOAA has released a new interactive tool to explore the solar...

A meteor has been spotted roaring over New South Wales on July 13, 2020 at around 5:30 p.m. local time Pictures captured on the Central...

There's something unusual lurking out in the depths of space. Astronomers have discovered four faint objects that at radio wavelengths are highly circular and brighter...

When European astronomers woke up this morning to photograph Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3), they saw something they didn't expect. The sunrise comet was surrounded by...

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place overnight from Saturday to Sunday for most observers in North and South America, as well as portions of western...