The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, which ended on November 30, produced 18 named storms, including 6 hurricanes, 3 of which were major (Category 3, 4 or 5).

A day on the moon lasts about an earthly month, so dawn comes to each part of the moon only that often. In this view from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, you can see a crater's central peak illuminated by sunlight, while the crater floor remains dark.

In September, India hoped to become the 4th nation to soft land on the moon successfully with its Chandrayaan 2 mission. Moments before touchdown, the mission's Vikram lander crashed. Now the lander has been found again.

We know of a couple of dozen so-called "stellar-mass" black holes in our Milky Way galaxy. They tend to be between about 5 and 20 times as heavy as our sun. This new black hole - in a distant spiral arm of the galaxy - is 70 times as heavy as the sun.

For those of you with telescopes, or telescopic lenses, here's something to watch for on a moon just past 1st quarter.

Although the moon reached its farthest point from Earth for the year last February 5, the year's farthest 1st quarter moon comes on December 3-4, 2019.

A new study focuses on the axial tilt of Earthlike exoplanets in binary or double star systems. It boosts hope for complex life elsewhere ... although not, these astronomers say, within the star system closest to our sun.

A long bright meteor, too, and on the night of the elusive Unicorn meteor shower ... but not a Unicorn meteor.

Australia's Wolfe Creek Crater likely formed when a 50-foot meteor struck about 120,000 years ago.

It sounds unbelievable, but a new study from Kagoshima University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan says that exoplanets - thousands of them - could be orbiting supermassive black holes.