J anuary 5, 2005, is an astronomical anniversary that is not really marked but should be. It saw the discovery of dwarf ...

From a total lunar eclipse to meteor showers to space probes, 2025 will be stellar for celestial viewing. Those and more will ...

This January, the night sky offers a stunning display featuring the Quadrantid meteor shower and a rare alignment of four bright planets visible in a single view. Witness Mars at opposition, shining ...

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun, ...

Earth is now closer to the sun than at any other time of the year. Here's why our planet's axial tilt, not proximity to the ...

Happy New Year and happy perihelion day! Earth is closest to the sun today at just 91,406,000 miles (1.55 million miles ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In 2025, Hawai ʻ i will experience numerous opportunities for skywatchers to observe a variety of celestial events. So, KHON2.com did a bit of digging to find out what celestial ...

The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

It’s going to be a front-loaded, exciting year for all things celestial, lunar and planetary. Space lovers are going to take ...

Welcome to January, the month that can’t help but present an alluringly clean slate that invites you to create the story of ...