Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the nighttime sky. The moon, nearly two nights past first quarter and appearing ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

Dune filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, opens up about his grief following the passing of David Lynch. Read his full comments here.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

If the solar system had a corporate structure, Jupiter would be the CEO, while Saturn ensures rules are followed. Venus ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in this area are chucking out six times the energy being produced by all ...

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...