Two new papers delve into mysterious lights and objects that were observed in the sky years before the first satellite ...

Researchers poured over historical photographs in search of "transients"—short-lived flashes of light of the night sky.

Doubleheader nighttime rocket launches in Cape Canaveral, Florida, may be visible from Boca Raton to Delray to West Palm ...

A new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several ...

Londoners reported seeing an atmospheric phenomenon that formed a spiral and an “S” shape in the sky on Tuesday evening. The ...

November has already witnessed the full moon and a meteor shower. More is on the way in the coming weeks of this month.

Skywatchers across Oman have been treated to a celestial spectacle with the rare appearance of Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN — a ...

Data show that unidentified lights in archival astronomy images were 68% more likely to be imaged 24 hours after a nuclear ...

Doubleheader nighttime rocket launches in Cape Canaveral, Florida, may be visible in Jacksonville, St. Augustine. What time is liftoff, what to know ...

The flashes of light were taken during the Palomar Sky Survey, a project that mapped the northern sky between 1949 and 1958.

That’s exactly what researchers at the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project (VASCO) are ...

A team of Harvard researchers established an observatory on top of the Sphere, a giant immersive entertainment venue in Las ...