But they’re not stars; they’re meteors, and the Geminid meteor shower this year could produce as many as 120 meteors an hour at its peak on Saturday night. Gary Boyle is known as the backyard ...

If you are among the many rural readers of this column, then you are probably a backyard astronomer of sorts. You might find ...

The Davis Astronomy Club welcomed its members and the surrounding community to a free event Tuesday night to catch a glimpse of the Perseid meteor shower during its peak on August 12, from 8 p.m. to 1 ...

In a recent feature published by Space.com, Vermont-based astrophotographer Dr. Michele Hernandez Bayliss has revealed a stunning set of deep-sky portraits captured entirely from her own backyard ...

Astronomers worldwide are captivated by a dramatic solar event unfolding on the Sun's northeastern limb, where a massive prominence, dubbed "The Beast", has been observed curling and shifting in an ...