During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with ...

A rare alignment between Earth and Saturn will make the gas giant’s rings appear so thin that they’ll be nearly invisible.

The unusual comet—which is to pass Earth again in the coming weeks—is only the third known object to visit us from outside ...

"With this data, the future path of the comet can also be determined much more precisely," Richard Moissl of ESA told ...

Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, musical composer and amateur astronomer William Herschel was scanning his telescope through the skies over ...

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside ...

The year 2026 is set to be guided by the powerful planet Sun according to numerology. Individuals born on dates totaling ...

The inner planets Mercury and Venus will both be visible in the east-southeast sky before sunrise on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

According to Paul Robertson, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine, discovering new exoplanets is common ...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces are conducting ongoing body disposal operations in El-Fasher weeks after mass killings that ...

A global coalition is working to protect the microbial “99%” that keeps the planet functioning. Their new roadmap lays out ...

The Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years away, is a star nursery where enough gas and dust exist to form roughly 200,000 ...