For as long as humans have walked the Earth, the great endless sky and the countless stars that fill it have left us in a state of awe-inspired wonderment. Similarly, the study and exploration of ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Early birds can catch our satellite just 3° from two giant planets in Pisces: lovely ringed Saturn and far distant Neptune.

At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...

Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in important elements and water.

It sold for more than the maximum estimated price of $4 million. On Wednesday (July 16), the largest Mars meteorite on Earth was auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York City for $4.3 million.

Our readers delve back millennia to answer this one, looking at the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Egyptians to ...

Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...