Researchers poured over historical photographs in search of "transients"—short-lived flashes of light of the night sky.
Mysterious “star-like” flashes of light spotted in photographs of sky surveys in the 1950s have long been associated with the ...
Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...
A recent survey uncovered several mysterious objects in the night sky, photographed before the first satellite ever made it ...
New peer-reviewed research reporting strange lights in the pre-space-age sky is sparking curiosity and controversy ...
It began in an era when the night sky was pristine, long before the metallic glint of satellites and the clutter of orbital ...
This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope ...
A memorial to 44 people who died in the first confirmed case of sabotage against a U.S. airliner is being dedicated on the ...
In the middle of the night on November 1, 1955, an adolescent Susan Morgan was roused from a deep sleep and told her parents ...
The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the innermost planet. A cormorant crosses the face of the full moon in ...
This image provided by Brennan Gilmore shows the bright green comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Cismont, Va. NEW YORK (AP) — Two bright green comets are streaming through the ...