The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...

As the American Meteor Society notes, Quadrantids has a short but active peak, lasting around 6 hours. The peak is expected ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

This week marks the last chance for backyard astronomers to see interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS before it races on its journey ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds of nearly 8,000 miles per hour, the space agency’s observations are critical for ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...

Glenn Close in "Wake Up Dead Man," Martin Sheen in "The West Wing" and Rowan Atkinson in "Man vs. Baby" (Credit: Netflix/NBC) This week also sees all seven seasons of “The West Wing” arrive on the ...

The Federal Reserve is set to meet for the final time in 2025 this week and optimism over another interest rate cut is surging. The chances of a cut at the conclusion of the central bank's meeting on ...

NFL Week 15 has arrived, meaning there are just four weeks left in the regular season. With no more bye weeks, all 32 teams will be on the NFL schedule this week with a majority of the games on Sunday ...

Some kind of kismet continues to link Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke. The authors belong to different generations, write in different languages and generate considerably different levels of ...