The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood ...

Claims of a "rare planetary alignment" are misleading; it's just visible planets. A true "golden conjunction" occurs on Sept. 8, 2040.

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

Over the coming days, it will move into the evening sky as it moves away from the sun. A bright comet, low in the west after sunset Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) will begin to appear in the evening sky ...

At its closest to the sun, the comet was almost as bright as the planet Venus (currently a spectacular sight in the western evening sky). Within a couple of weeks, the comet will cease to be ...