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While the celestial event has been occurring all week (and all month in some form) experts say the best time to see it will be early Friday morning.

The April 8, 2024, solar eclipse will give tens of millions of skywatchers a chance to experience the celestial phenomenon – the last chance to do so from the U.S. until 2045, scientists say.

Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos

Starry-eyed lovers of astronomy have something to look forward to overnight as a near-total lunar eclipse will be visible in North America.

Here’s your guide to watching the August 2021 Perseid meteor showers tonight. Get details on what time they’ll start, where to look for them and more.

Astronomers say they’ve witnessed for the first time a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the densest object in the universe

Parts of North America were able to see a partial solar eclipse on Thursday morning.

A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the United States over three nights earlier this week had callers frantically calling TV stations from Texas to Wisconsin and speculating that a fleet of UFOs was coming

If you like shooting stars, you’re in luck. The annual Lyrid meteor shower, which is active from April 16 to April 25, is expected to peak late Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning.

Star-gazers unable to catch the once-in-a-lifetime sight in the sky Monday night known as the ‘Christmas star’ will still have a chance to see a version of the exciting event this week.

A phenomenon called the “Christmas Star,” which has not been seen for nearly 800 years, will light up the sky tonight just in time for the holiday season. NASA scientist and astronomer Dr. Kelly Fast joined LX News to explain what it is and how to see it.

This year has already brought several firsts for much of the world, but as 2020 comes to a close, a once-in-a-lifetime sight will appear in the night sky just in time for the holidays.

Throughout the afternoon, there were 90 reports of a bright white fireball with shades of yellow being seen from Ontario to Virginia, with most reports of the loud boom coming from the Syracuse area.

Learn how to observe the sky with Franklin Institute’s new program for at-home sky gazers. Philly Live’s Sheila Watko talks to Derrick Pitts about how you can become a navigator of the night sky.

An image of a mesmerizing cosmic spiral, twisting and swirling around a galactic maw, may be the first direct evidence of the birth of a planet ever captured by humanity. The European Southern Observatory released a picture Wednesday of what astronomers believe shows the process of cosmic matter in the midst of a gravitational tipping point, collapsing into a new…

Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth

The two-day Perseid meteor shower offers one of the most spectacular shooting star displays.