From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

Geminid meteors can be seen for most of the first half of the month with an expected peak after midnight on December 14. The radiant is well up in the eastern sky by late evening, and in clear skies ...

Our Solar System, instead of traveling through empty space, is surrounded by clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers recently ...

The Full moon, the Yule Moon, is on December 4. This is a supermoon, the second largest of 2025. The next evening, the moon ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during December 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Plus, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and the winter solstice arrives Dec. 21 at 10:03 a.m.

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Beyond the local interstellar clouds and their wispy clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms in the form of gas and dust, the ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White ...