The moon, the brightest and largest object in our night sky, isn’t technically a planet. That’s because it orbits around the Earth, not the sun.

A spectacular meteor jetted through the skies over Portugal and Spain Saturday night, dazzling millions of people with a blue-green fireball that lit up the night sky. The celestial object was ...

Dashcam footage recorded from a highway in Anderson, South Carolina, showed a bright object with a tail streaking through the ...

Unusual flashes of bright blue light, billions of times more powerful than the sun, have been seen in distant galaxies, baffling astronomers. A new discovery may offer clues.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1408, Chinese astronomers and court officials observed an especially bright object in the sky that appeared for about ten days, but its ...

A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much brighter object that explodes when it penetrates the atmosphere but ...

The prototype BlueWalker 3 satellite is now one of the brightest objects in the night sky. Astronomers are worried about even bigger, brighter satellites that are on the way.