The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower ...

The Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't peak until August. Here's how to see them in Ohio.

Fireworks dazzle, but it’s music that carries memory, meaning, and hope. This Fourth of July, explore how sound shapes ...

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...

When stars appear lower in the night sky, they shine through more of Earth’s atmosphere. This makes the starlight dance and even change colors.

When millions of people turn off their lights for Earth Hour each year, something remarkable happens in the night sky above ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

July's Buck Moon – the first full Moon of summer in the northern hemisphere – will rise on Thursday (July 10). It's one of ...

Sky watchers will have the chance to spot the full Moon glowing a vibrant orange hue tonight. July's full Moon, also known as ...

So far as I have been able to learn, little or nothing is known about the colour of the night sky. The light is too faint for ordinary visual discrimination of colour, which disappears with ...

But was the colour always the same shade? A NASA research scientist, Jessie Christiansen, explained that the night sky, and possibly even the daytime one, may have looked a little different during ...

The meteor shower is best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere in the predawn hours, according to NASA, though they are ...