Earth will pass through a trail of debris left behind by Halley’s Comet in 985 B.C.E. ahead of the Eta Aquariids' peak.

If all goes well late on May 6, 2024, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off into space on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Launching from the Kennedy Space Center, this last ...

Discovering new black holes is no easy feat — where do you even begin to look? New data and techniques help us get closer ...

The spiders on Mars form during the planet's springtime when temperatures rise and rays of sunlight touch the ice layers of ...

This week, early risers can watch as a beautiful line of planets parades past the Moon. With Mercury’s return, the swift ...

Simulations show that a slow, shallow impact formed the western half of Pluto's heart - and also shed light on the dwarf ...

The evening sky loses its last planet early in May, shifting the attention of planetary observers to the morning.

As the Moon rises early in the morning, Mars and Neptune meet in a conjunction and we gear up for the Eta Aquariids in the ...

Ancient Egyptians may have associated the Milky Way with the sky goddess Nut, who was often portrayed as a star-studded woman ...

The tau neutrino, one type of particularly energetic neutrino, has eluded IceCube's detectors on the South Pole – until now.

Borrowing the word die — which belongs to biology — the grand total of stellar deaths is about 52 per century or one every ...

A hypothesis has been around for 60 years that part of Stonehenge aligns with moonrise and moonset during a major lunar ...