September 2020 was our planet's hottest September since 1880. With 3 months left, 2020 could rank among the top 3 warmest years on record for the globe.

Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured an image of the asteroid last night.

The Orionid meteor shower will peak around mid-week, with the best morning likely being Wednesday, October 21.

The discovery of the most metal-poor globular cluster recorded to date has forced scientists to rethink how both galaxies and globular clusters form.

You might or might not see the moon on October 17, 2020. But you'll more easily catch it on October 18, 19 or 20. Look west after sunset!

A new study shows how methane snow accumulates on Pluto's mountain peaks. These snowcaps - first seen by New Horizons in 2015 - look a lot like ones on Earth, but form in a very alien environment.

October 16 brings us the closest new moon of 2020. Some will call it a supermoon. You won't see this extra-close new moon because it'll travel across the daytime sky with the sun. But you might see its gravitational effect on the tides along ocean shorelines in the days following new moon.

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket successfully launched an uncrewed test flight on October 13, with both its capsule and booster later executing a flawless landing.

Are there worlds out there - orbiting distant stars - even better suited for life than Earth? Might they be older, larger, warmer, wetter and with longer-living stars? Now astronomers have identified 24 possible superhabitable worlds.

You can use the Summer Triangle - and the constellation Cygnus the Swan - to locate the edgewise disk of our Milky Way galaxy.