Space

The highest number of meteors will be visible at around 2 a.m. tonight, when the constellation Gemini is at its highest point in the night sky.

The final full moon of the year, called the Cold Moon, will fall in the early hours of December 15.

"Even the most extreme solar events are part of the sun's natural repertoire," a researcher said.

"When running an accident investigation from 100 million miles away, you don't have any black boxes!" NASA's Håvard Grip said.

"The hunt for elusive intermediate-mass black holes continues," researcher Justin Read said.

"Our understanding of the universe may be incomplete," Nobel Prize-winning researcher Adam Riess said.

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space.

As Arctic ice recedes, human activity in this inhospitable environment is increasing, and scientists have recorded stark changes.

Swift's Denver show was so big that satellite images could see it from space.

Satellite images show a remarkable turnaround for a lake long affected by droughts—the fastest recovery in the lake's history.

The launch of the Artemis II mission has been pushed to April 2026 after an investigation into the Orion spacecraft's heat shield.

Iran claims the Simorgh rocket carried a payload of 660 pounds, heavier than its previous successful launches.

Two European satellites have been launched into orbit to mark the start of a project to create artificial solar eclipses in space.

The Geminid meteor shower is due to peak on December 13, but there's plenty of other celestial sights to feast your eyes on during the festive season.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen billionaire Jared Isaacman, a tech entrepreneur and ally of Elon Musk, as the next administrator of NASA.

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt," astronomer Jay Tate said.

This asteroid, named 2024 XA1, is only the 11th object we have ever managed to detect before it entered our planet's atmosphere.

Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with water.

Research shows that some of Earth's largest asteroid impacts, despite their destruction, had minimal long-term climate effects.

Dark matter, which makes up 80 percent of all matter in the universe, may have formed in the very short time before the big bang.

"It is hard to imagine Venus ever having supported Earth-like life, which requires liquid water," researcher Tereza Constantinou said.

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across.

A new spaceport planned for construction in Scotland has broken ground.

A rare lunar event will only happen in 13 states on Saturday—here's why.

SpaceX partners with the National Reconnaissance Office to deploy secretive satellites in late-night launch from California.

The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981.

The Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to watch the sun for any ejections of plasma that may hit Earth and damage power grids.

The president-elect and Kai Trump, 17, attended the sixth Starship test flight this month.

A G1 geomagnetic storm may hit tomorrow evening, with a G2 storm following in the early hours of November 29.