With all the buzz about the upcoming Mayan Apocalypse (a.k.a. the winter solstice) of December 21, the Geminid meteor shower threatens to be lost in the shuffle...

For most of this year we’ve watched Venus and its various assignations as the planet of love (or war, according to ancient Mayan beliefs) has gotten cozy with the moon, Jupiter, th...

It’s no secret that the sun is getting feistier. With solar maximum scheduled to peak over the next year or two, the sunspots are forming and erupting faster and more frequently...

Astronomers weren’t expecting much from this year’s incarnation of the Leonid meteor shower, but those flecks of rock smacking into Mother Earth’s atmosphere have surprised observe...

Astronomers may operate in the dark, but they actually want to share the light. Starlight, that is...

In a stunning display, the sun devoured by the moon just as the golden orb peeked over the ocean off Cairns, Australia...

Cairns, Australia, is all pumped up for its first total solar eclipse in more than 1,300 years, and its people are eager to share this singular event with the world...

Insomniacs, fishers and other pre-dawn perambulators may want to turn their eyes skyward as Veterans Day proper segues into the holiday Monday, checking for fireballs from the Taur...

For the second time this year, the moon will eclipse the sun...

It's that time of year again, when Mother Earth's orbit takes us through the remants of the tail of Halley's Comet to give us one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers: the...