The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

Between March 18 and 21, Venus, the brightest planet in our solar system, will have a rare dual visibility — visible in both ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of a bird. One such photograph, for example, was shared on Reddit in 2019, ...

These next two weeks bring us a potentially thrilling partial eclipse of the sun and amazing sights of Venus in its once-every-eight-years steepest departure from the evening sky.

Overnight lows Tuesday night will drop into the upper 30s. Wednesday high temperatures will approach 70° in the Susquehanna ...

At the time of the equinoxes, the sun appears to move from one hemisphere to the other. The vernal equinox in March is when ...

Look west and see the sun set. Look east, the full moon rises. Seeing this phenomenon is impressive, but not unique, according to the Journal's astronomy expert, Kevin McKeown. In April, September, ...

It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: Blue light from the Sun is scattered the most when ...

In less than a minute, McClain’s ride was nothing more than a beaming orange dot in the dusk sky. Then it disappeared entirely. The reusable Falcon 9 came tumbling back to Earth in a rapid free ...

Between the night of March 13 and the early morning of March 14, the moon will be obscured by the sun by the shadow of the Earth and will take on the appearance of a traditional to ...