astronomy

At the peak of the Perseids this week, up to 100 meteors an hour can be caught shooting across the sky at 37 miles per second, leaving long streaks in their wake.

Potentially, observers in plenty of star systems could have detected Earth sometime in the last 5,000 years. More stars will soon move into positions that would let them see our planet.

Early risers across the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see an eclipse Thursday morning when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun.

The "Super Flower Blood Moon" is happening early Wednesday morning, as a supermoon coincides with a full lunar eclipse. Here's how to see it.

The light of the moon will reduce the visibility of some fainter meteors, but NASA says it's still worth staying up late — or rising very very early on Wednesday — to see "nature's fireworks."

KSJD’s Austin Cope spoke with Karishma Bansal, the University of New Mexico graduate student whose discovery of two supermassive orbiting black holes has…

KSJD's Austin Cope visited the Anasazi Heritage Center on Monday morning, where about 350 people came to watch the partial solar eclipse. He spoke with a…

About 80 percent less sunlight shone on the Four Corners region at midday on Monday during the partial solar eclipse. About 350 eclipse-watchers gathered…

Monday morning’s solar eclipse will not be a total eclipse when viewed in the Four Corners area, but more than 80 percent of the sun will be blotted out…

In this episode of the More Than You Want To Know Show, the EngiNerd takes on the very complicated topic of gravity and black holes, and how the theory of…