A new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several ...

Observation of the night sky, before the advent of satellites, was assumed to be free of the artificial bright points that ...

Researchers poured over historical photographs in search of "transients"—short-lived flashes of light of the night sky.

A team of Harvard researchers established an observatory on top of the Sphere, a giant immersive entertainment venue in Las ...

That’s exactly what researchers at the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project (VASCO) are ...

A new study investigates strange bursts of light captured in old astronomical photos, suggesting they may link to both UFO sightings and Cold War nuclear testing.

Sky events have always caught our attention. They can be beautiful, mysterious, and sometimes downright eerie. While most of ...

Londoners reported seeing an atmospheric phenomenon that formed a spiral and an “S” shape in the sky on Tuesday evening. The ...

Two new papers delve into mysterious lights and objects that were observed in the sky years before the first satellite ...

Data show that unidentified lights in archival astronomy images were 68% more likely to be imaged 24 hours after a nuclear ...

Netizens on Wednesday were left baffled after visuals of rare 'lenticular’ cloud formation over Quetta's skies went viral on ...