The tail end of Perseid meteor shower coincides with a dark new moon and clear skies in Washington tonight, Aug. 22-23.

You've no doubt heard of supermoons, blue moons, mini moons and blood moons, but have you ever heard of a black moon?

A rare black moon is rising tonight, but you won't see it in Mississippi. Watch last nights of 2025 Perseid meteor shower.

The Observatory is home to the largest optical telescope in the state of New York, a computerized f/4 Newtonian reflector with a 1-meter (40-inch) primary mirror. The telescope, designated the NTT-40, ...

NASA estimates around 44 tonnes of meteoritic material fall towards Earth each day. Almost all of it is vaporised in the atmosphere, leaving glowing streaks visible across the night sky.

The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars will technically be there ...

Stargazers were treated to a celestial spectacle as the Perseids meteor shower lit up the night sky over Yosemite National ...

If you’re willing to get up in the early morning hours you can see up to six planets before sunrise. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, ...

Meteors are when meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere, or of any other planet, at high speed and burn up, resulting in ...

There’s still time to catch the Perseid meteor shower, with darker skies offering better viewing than during its moonlit peak ...