solar system

(TNS)—Astronomers have determined that our nearest neighbor is gradually inching away from us. The Weather Channel reports that the Earth’s moon is mo...

(TNS)— Attention, Pennsylvania residents: When things are a little less cloudy, take a gander at the night sky at some point this month. It’s there th...

SMILE: Early in the morning, before sunrise on April 25, the dark sky will hold a rare sight — a smiley face. Really. The planets Venus and Saturn wil...

March’s full moon, also called the worm moon, will appear red in the skies tonight during a total lunar eclipse. “The eclipse happens because the eart...

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter, it was described as a p...

GEMINID: Now through Christmas Eve, you can watch for the Geminids all night long. The Geminid meteor shower is often highly visible in the Northern H...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — 2024’s next supermoon will rise this week. And it’s going to be the closest one of the year. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac,...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Meteorologists are predicting that something “unpredictable” could be visible in places it’s not usually seen this weekend. Said pl...

HARVEST MOON: The breathtaking spectacle of the harvest moon will illuminate in the sky Sept. 16, 17 and 18. Peak illumination will be at 10:34 p.m. T...

MOUNT JEWETT — Kinzua Bridge State Park will offer a free, unique opportunity at 4 a.m. Tuesday when a meteor shower will fall across the sky over the...

You couldn’t touch the floor. Everywhere you put your foot down, there was lava. It would burn you up! It was total danger! Everybody knew it, which i...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — To borrow the two words from a Hilary Duff hit single, the solar eclipse is so yesterday. And not only because it’s come and gone (...

SMETHPORT — Jeffini’s Reading Blastoff Magic Showwill visit Hamlin Memorial Library in Smethport at 6:30 p.m. July 1. The event is free to attend. Acc...

My mind works in mysterious ways, as is evident to those who read my columns. I found something in the Farmers Almanac for 2019 that caught my eye, an...

YEAR’S END: With this year coming to an end, agencies and organizations are taking stock of what happened in 2017. Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful recentl...

PLANET 9: NASA is inviting the public to “help scan the realm beyond Neptune for brown dwarfs and planet nine” in a new online project. According to N...