Summer stargazing goes out with a bang in August with the best meteor shower of the year.

Astronomers have discovered the strongest evidence yet that famous star Betelgeuse has a companion. Using the Very Large ...

Solar and lunar eclipses both occur this month, as Mars and Jupiter meet in the early morning and the Perseid meteor shower peaks.

Partial Lunar Eclipse: When the full moon rises on the Aug. 27, around 7:40 p.m., it will already be a partial eclipse. You ...

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 A giant planet spent more than a decade concealed inside one of astronomy’s most closely ...

The Perseid meteor shower will peak from the evening of Aug. 12 into the early morning of Aug. 13. The best viewing for L.A.

NASA's Swift Observatory confirmed the existence of a faraway supermassive black hole — and also captured it devouring a ...

Four-point stars, decorated with a wide variety of colors and designs, are scattered among artworks created by those ages 2 ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will kick off the fall semester with a hybrid offering of a short film ...

Betelgeuse is a superstar among the stars — one of the brightest in the night sky, a massive ​red supergiant in the constellation Orion that sometimes brightens and dims, and adds to its allure with ...

In its 21st year at Grant Park, Lollapalooza will send ground-shaking soundwaves through downtown Chicago July 30 to Aug. 2.