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If you're a fan of astronomy or just love admiring the beauty of the night sky, you definitely shouldn't miss this.

A green comet, last seen over 50,000 years ago during The Stone Age, will be visible to the naked eye soon in Illinois. Here is the best time to spot it.

Just wait until their parents see the phone bill. Students in Illinois this week got a long-distance call of the space kind when astronauts aboard the space station gave them a ring.

It's been an active year in our skies when it comes to meteors, fireballs and such. That includes an event Wednesday evening when videos captured a fireball reportedly seen by hundreds over Missouri and Illinois.

The Illinois sky will be alive with a rare 5-planet parade during the month of June.

If you were impressed with the newly revealed first picture ever of a black hole, you can thank the University of Illinois as they were part of the team that made it happen.

It wasn't a meteor shower or UFO but there is an explanation.

Hold on to your tin hats flat earthers, and conspiracy theorists, there is a logical explanation as to what was soaring through the sky.

Early bird gets the worm, or in this case, the eclipse. Let's start with the facts, what is an eclipse? Well, there's different kinds of eclipses. The one we experienced this morning (June 10) was a solar eclipse. It was a partial solar eclipse, and according to Nasa that basically means - Partial solar eclipse: This happens when the Sun, Moon and Earth are not exactly aligned...

The International Space Station, or ISS, has been floating around above the Earth since 1998, and this week is a particularly good time to look up and catch it as it flies over the Rockford area multiple times.