Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. December 18: Mercury on the move New Moon occurs at 8:43 P.M. EST. This is the best time to view deep-sky objects, so let's ...

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Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar comet after 2017's 1I/'Oumuamua and 2019's 2I/Borisov. It was discovered on July 1, 2025 and made its closest approach to the sun in October. Now it is ...

With 3I/ATLAS slated to make its Earth tour in two days, amateur photographers and astronomers alike are scrambling to catch ...

The 17th day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a pair of star-forming regions in a distant and dusty ...

Night sky update for December 17, 2025, covering the moon phase, visible planets, meteor showers, and key space and astronomy news from today ...

The Kitka ensemble winter show, WinterFest at Chabot Space and Science Center, Liam O’Donogue playing funky beats at Eli’s, ...

When winter sets in, and daylight is gone well before dinner, it’s hard not to notice how long the nights stretch on. For me, ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

On Episode 189 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with their favorite Newspace Buccaneer, Jeffrey Manber.

The editors at EarthSky.org predict the peak of the Geminid meteor shower for 2025 at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13. Anytime ...

The peak shower will appear to the east, coming out of the Gemini constellation, between 8 and 9 p.m. Saturday, and will last through the night. Meteors began falling on Dec. 4 and will continue until ...