There's a giant, peanut-shaped object orbiting the Sun, and it’s name is Halley’s comet. Like all comets, it’s a cosmic ...

Every 75 years, a ball of fire streaks across the sky. But that's no fireball. It's Halley's Comet. And you're about to hitch ...

We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and ...

The true nature of the Star of Bethlehem remains a mystery, but a new research points to the peculiar motion of a comet as a ...

Christmas Day in 1809 saw a surgical first thanks to Dr Ephraim McDowell, the American physician who performed the world’s ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

Then there was the September discovery of C/2025 R2 (SWAN), a comet so bright that even when it was near the moon on ...

If you have any clear night skies this week, bundle up and get outside to see the best meteor shower of the year!

The Geminid meteor shower is active from Dec. 4 to 17, peaking the night of Dec. 13 into 14. It’s one of the only annual ...

The light shows keep coming in 2026. Here's a calendar of full moons, supermoons, eclipses and meteor showers over Redding and the North State.

Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a rousing defense of scientific principles in his characteristic brash way during his Purdue ...