"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear ...

The pre-dawn sky on April 25 will see a conjunction of Venus, Saturn and a waning crescent moon, which will resemble a ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Our latest Humanist Society talk explored the latest round of understanding the universe through space observations. Humanist ...

Stargazers are in for a treat as the month of May brings multiple phenomena to the sky. After April brought the Lyrids meteor shower, with between 10 and 15 meteors per hour streaking through the sky ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

China launched two satellites atop a Yuanzheng-1S mounted on a Long March-2C rocket. While the first and second stages were ...

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrid meteor shower is the world's oldest known of its kind and reliably occurs ...