Although the Ursids are active from Dec. 13 through Dec. 26, the peak night coincides with the winter solstice, which occurs at 10:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 21. Though the two events are totally unrelated, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere is a great time to look for meteors, and to photograph them if you're up for the challenge.

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is remarkable,” said the University of Michigan astronomer and a co-author of a study published on December 5 in the journal Nature Astronomy. “It opens a new window into some of the most dramatic events in the universe.”

WWE, despite its creative faults, catapulted a number of new stars to the top in 2025. That list includes the likes of Jade Cargill, Jey Uso, Naomi and Tiffany Stratton, who have all reached new heights as singles stars this year.

The Dallas Stars have activated depth forward Adam Erne off the injury reserve ahead of Friday's clash with the Anaheim Ducks.

The final ESA/Webb Picture of the Month feature for 2025 showcases a festive-looking region filled with glowing clouds of gas and thousands of sparkling stars. This star cluster, known as Westerlund 2,

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such 'monster stars' might have been the source of ancient supermassive black holes.

Scientists find that two hot stars passed near our solar system 4.4 million years ago, altering nearby interstellar clouds.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy, which is substantially smaller than our own Milky Way, lies 13 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear).

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."