Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor ...

The Red Planet will meet a beautiful star cluster called the Beehive on Friday (May 2). Also known as M44, the cluster will ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was the rare comet that ... between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. It wouldn’t reach perihelion — its closest point to the Sun — until Sept. 27, 2024.

"This happens mostly when the meteoroids are between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn." From the measured shower dispersions, the team calculated the ages of over 200 long-period comet meteoroid ...

For those of you who love to do some stargazing during the warmer months, now is a great time to get outside and look up.

The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo the Lion and Ursa Major the Great Bear. Leo is easy to pick out by spotting a large backward question mark known as the Sickle. The bright star ...

"We found that the two jumps in the plane of motion, when the sun takes control as the comet approaches and then ... shower would return when Jupiter and Saturn were in certain locations in ...