After record rainfall in April, we are thankfully getting much-needed time to dry out this weekend. For Saturday, a few scattered showers will be possible for counties along and East of Hwy 63, ...

At these heights, the atmosphere is cold enough that clouds are typically composed of ice crystals, not water droplets. These clouds often look thin, wispy, and delicate—but they can provide valuable ...

The Aquarids, a meteor shower famous for its speedy balls of space debris that streak across the night sky, is peaking soon.

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

It is rare when we highlight a celestial event (or events) that involves the zodiacal constellation of Cancer the Crab. In ...

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

The Eta Aquariids major Class I meteor shower can be seen just before dawn on May 4. In the Fluvanna area, the shower will produce about 10-30 meteors an hour. Unfortunately, the moon will be in its ...

The cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of dawn, had eluded researchers because it contains very little carbon monoxide ...

The Aquarids – sometimes spelled as "Aquariids" – first became active April 19 and are due to peak between May 5 and May 6.

Today, we know that M44 contains about 1,000 gravitationally bound stars, and that it’s about 577 light-years away from Earth ...

The Full Flower Moon in Scorpio rises and shines on May 12th. Activating the axis of life and death, rot and renewal, ...