The five so-called naked-eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — are having a rare...
Science & Astronomy
With the successful completion of its spaceflight Sunday morning, SpaceX has accomplished three launches in just 36...
Space scientists have discovered just how much they can accomplish when they work together, with incredible feats...
A diagram showing the locations of five bright planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, in the...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the spiral galaxy NGC 7496 24 million light-years from Earth. (Image credit:...
Astronomers observing the fastest nova ever recorded have discovered that it reverberates periodically like a struck bell,...
Venus’ atmosphere bears no signs of microbes eating or pooping, suggesting that the odd chemical composition of...
The fastest-growing black hole ever seen is swallowing the mass equivalent of an entire Earth every second. ...
An unusual blue-tinged asteroid likely got its trademark color from intense sunlight, new research finds, solving a...
One look at this stunning new image and you’re likely to repeat the immortal words of “2001:...