The Lyrid meteor shower is an annual night sky display where stargazers can witness up to 20 'shooting stars' an hour during ...

We're here to help you reach for the stars and complete the NYT Strands puzzle for today, April 25, 2025. Fans of word ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

As we move through the year and check celestial events off the calendar, there are still six meteor showers left to see in ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Mars resides in the last of these star groups during April’s first ... and the Sun illuminates 28 percent of its Earth-facing hemisphere. Like Venus, Mercury passed through inferior conjunction ...

When we see a “shooting star,” it’s actually the glowing ... the Eta Aquarids are best seen in the southern hemisphere due to the viewing location, as they are higher up in the sky in ...

There's an exciting reason to gaze up at the sky tonight: the Lyrids meteor shower. Formed out of remaining particles from Comet Thatcher, the Lyrids meteor shower is visible every April as Earth ...