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

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 ...

Astronomy Magazine reviews the 60th anniversary edition of Celestron's NexStar Evolution 8HD Smart Telescope with StarSense.

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

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

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

As a revival of the lunar race inches closer, scientists have just begun working out a key question: What time is it on the ...

Katya Echazarreta is a trailblazing scientist — now with her own Barbie Doll — who is focused on STEM and success for the ...

The organic material needed for life was likely destroyed during Earth’s formation — but was plentiful in the early solar ...

A study demonstrates how a dust analyzer will be able to find even tiny fractions of a bacterial cell in ice grains.

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

The Galilean moon Io has already lost sextillions of tons of sulfur, and will someday run out of this element.