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The Geminid meteor shower's peak activity happens this week, when 120 meteors per hour are possible under the right conditions.

The world is closing out its warmest year on record, and if the phrase sounds like a broken record, it is because the record was set just last year.

This upcoming aerial spectacle occurs when the Earth positions itself between the Sun and Jupiter. Here’s how you can watch it.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Pacific region says the 74-year-old Laysan albatross returned to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in late November to lay an egg.

The asteroid was traveling at about a velocity of 9.6 miles per second and measured between 1.6 and 4 feet.

A side-by-side comparison of the photo with its predecessor from the Hubble telescope shows how clearer the newer telescope is, allowing us to see the so-called “Sombrero galaxy" like never before.

Displays of Northern Lights are possible on Thanksgiving and Black Friday for some of the U.S. after NOAA's space weather forecasters say charged particles from the Sun will create geomagnetic storm conditions.

Biologists have discovered a new tarantula species in Cuba that is bigger and hairier than other spiders in its genus.

Known as WOH G64, the star is 2,000 times larger than the Sun and classified as a red supergiant, scientists said.

The asteroid is going to safely pass by Earth on Nov. 26, and astronomers say it’s one of many near-Earth objects (NEO).

A Russian Progress spacecraft delivering nearly three tons of supplies to the International Space Station also brought an unwanted smell when cosmonauts opened the hatch.

The emperor penguin, dubbed Gus, had somehow swam over 2,000 miles from his icy home and was found on a sun-drenched beach in Denmark, Western Australia, earlier this month.

The recently discovered object, known as 2024 PT5, has been tagging alongside Earth since September. Here’s what to know about it.

Shop workers unloading a supply of Christmas trees in Hawaii found an unexpected visitor hiding within the shipment.

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far.