Space

The annual Perseid meteor shower runs from mid-July into August, but the best time to watch this colorful, cosmic light show is over the next couple of weeks. Vermont has no shortage of dark skies for meteor viewing — here’s what to know before you head out.

The mission will help better predict how energy from the sun affects life on Earth, including disruptions to satellites, power grids and astronauts.

The peak of the Lyrid meteor shower shower this year is expected Monday and Tuesday this week, when the tail is at its peak.

If you can stay awake, totality will occur between 2:26 a.m. and 3:31 a.m.

In the New Year, there will be supermoons, meteor showers and other exciting celestial events.

A "severe" solar storm has reached Earth. Clouds could clear between midnight and 2 a.m. in the Champlain Valley.

The aurora borealis will likely be visible throughout Vermont the night of Saturday, Oct. 5, according to a forecast by the Space Weather Prediction Center.

National space weather forecasters have issued a "Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch" for tonight — rare conditions that can produce the colorful lights of the aurora borealis in the night sky as far south as northern California and Alabama.

Northern Vermont will experience a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. We created a map to show exactly what the path of totality covers.

Scientists have updated their forecast for the current solar cycle, which usually lasts about 11 years. Solar activity is now expected to peak earlier and to be stronger than previously thought.