The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to ...

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IN a spectacular flop, a Christmas drone show has left children confused, parents embarrassed and families demanding refunds ...

IN a spectacular flop, a Christmas drone show has left children confused, parents embarrassed and families demanding refunds ...

The Cleveland Cavaliers' 12-9 start to the season isn't an untenable matter, but it will become one if they don't snap out of ...

The Full moon, the Yule Moon, is on December 4. This is a supermoon, the second largest of 2025. The next evening, the moon ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...

Bright stars and a lone bright planet are visible at dusk as December begins. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Altair and Deneb is well up in the west and getting lower as the month progresses; Saturn ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Plus, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and the winter solstice arrives Dec. 21 at 10:03 a.m.

Any clear night this month is the perfect time to pull out those binoculars or your telescope to observe the Orion Nebula.

December for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Geminids meteor shower, as Greg Redern highlights in December’s ...