astronomy

These Amateur Astronomers Found Dark Sky Paradise on a Tiny Vermont Hill

By Jeffrey Kluger

An Asteroid the Size of the Statue of Liberty Will Whiz Past Earth Tomorrow. Here's How to See It

By Alix Langone

Why Google Doodle Celebrates Astronomer Guillermo Haro Today

By Jamie Ducharme

A Solar Storm Could Bring Spectacular Northern Lights Tonight. Here’s How You Can See Them

By Jennifer Calfas
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Missed the ‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ Eclipse? Here Are All the Other Eclipses Coming Up in 2018

There are some other eclipses on the horizon

By Sarah Begley

A Mysterious Object Flying Past the Sun Is Our First Confirmed Visitor From Another Solar System

It's been named ‘'Oumuamua’ after a Hawaiian term meaning scout or messenger

By Billy Perrigo

New Earth-Like Planet Could Have Life

Ross 128 b is roughly the same size as Earth and could have a similar temperature

By Aric Jenkins

The Leonid Meteor Shower Is This Weekend

The annual event starts Nov. 17

By Jamie Ducharme

What Is a Partial Solar Eclipse?

Even outside the path of totality, North Americans will experience a partial eclipse on Monday

By Sarah Begley

How to Make Your Own Solar Eclipse Viewer

No eclipse glasses? No problem

By Sarah Begley and TIME Video

Half-Mile-Long Asteroid to Pass Very Close to Earth

The approach, a distance of 1.1 million miles or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon, will also be the closest the 2,000-foot-long asteroid comes for another 500 years, according to NASA

By Lisa Marie Segarra

A Cosmic Cat and Lobster Say Hello

It took 2 billion pixels to create the image

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Moon May Once Have Been Many Moons

A new study upends an old theory

By Jeffrey Kluger

There Might Be an Ocean Under Pluto's Surface

Its heart-shaped crater might be concealing liquid water

By Kerry Close

See the Best Views of the Supermoon From Around the World

It's the closest the full moon has been to Earth since 1948

By Mahita Gajanan

The Moon Will Cross in Front of a Bright Star in Tuesday Night's Sky

Lunar occultation will be visible with binoculars in North America

By Suyin Haynes

The Winners of the Best Astronomy Photos of 2016

An unusual image of a total solar eclipse took first place

By Marisa Gertz

A First Map of the Entire Milky Way

The largest all-sky survey of our galaxy ever assembled

By Jeffrey Kluger

How to Watch the 2016 Perseids Meteor Shower

You'll be able to see about 50 to 60 meteors per hour

By Slooh and Daniel White

How to Get your Kids into Star Gazing

...of the non-Kardashian type

By Carey Wallace
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