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Learn more about the Chi Cygnid Meteor Shower, a rare shower that seems to grow every five years and will appear this September 2025, peaking between September 13, 2025, and September 15, 2025. A falling star during the Perseid meteor shower.(Image Credit: Sofoklo/Shutterstock) If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, look no further than the night sky as the Chi Cygnid meteor showe

The Pleiades will appear close to the moon before midnight on Sept. 12. An image of the Pleiades open star cluster. (Image credit: Alan Dyer/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Look east on the night of Sept. 12 to see the waning gibbous moon close to the magnificent Pleiades open cluster, with the distant planet Uranus lurking nearby in the constellation Taurus

Forecasters warn of possible G2 geomagnetic storms as a colossal coronal hole sends solar wind racing our way. Forecasters warn of possible G2 geomagnetic storms as a colossal coronal hole sends solar wind racing our way. (Image credit: Left: NOAA GOES. Right: Canva Pro) A colossal butterfly-shaped coronal hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere and is currently spewing

The shooting stars appear to emanate from a patch of space in the constellation Perseus. A sporadic meteor captured in the skies over Argentina. (Image credit: Stocktrek Images/Luis Argerich/Getty Images) Heads up stargazers! The September Epsilon Perseids meteor shower peaks predawn on Sept. 9. Here's what you need to know about this annual shower to increase your chances o

See the first photos of September's majestic total lunar eclipse. The blood moon at full eclipse from Dubai (Image credit: timeanddate) The Sept. 7-8 total lunar eclipse has come and gone, treating stargazers to a breathtaking blood moon that was witnessed by over seven billion people across Asia, western Australia and eastern Europe. A total lunar eclipse occurs during a n

The second total lunar eclipse of 2025 delivers a long, blood-red moon. The second total lunar eclipse of 2025 delivers a long, blood-red moon. (Image credit: WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images) Jump to: Tonight (Sept. 7–8, 2025), the moon will slip into Earth's shadow for a total lunar eclipse — creating a dramatic 'blood moon'. It's completely safe to watch wi

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions this Labor Day. Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions this Labor Day. (Image credit: NOAA SWPC, graphic created in Canva by Daisy Dobrijevic) A potent solar storm is on its way and

A Black Moon rises Aug. 23, though you won't see it. Its timing makes it a rare lunar event. A Black Moon rises Aug. 23, though you won't see it. Its timing makes it a rare lunar event. (Image credit: Alasdair Turner via Getty Images) On Aug. 23, the night sky will play host to an unusual lunar event known as a Black Moon. While you won't actually see anything unusual (in

A rare August morning alignment brings Mercury, a thin crescent moon and the Beehive Cluster together in the predawn sky. Here's how you can see it for yourself. Don't miss Mercury, the moon and the Beehive put on a pre-sunrise display this August. (Image credit: Left: blackphobos via Getty Images, right:redonion1515 fr Canva Pro) Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), a legendary writer

The moon will drift towards the Pleiades and Uranus in the early hours of Aug. 16-17. The moon (left) with the Pleiades open star cluster (right) (Image credit: Photo (right) by Franco Tognarini via Getty Images. Photo (left) by Yaorusheng via Getty Images.) The moon will sweep close to the Pleiades open star cluster in the early morning hours of Aug. 16-17, with the ice gia