Astronomy

  Fans of the Drake Equation can rejoice, because NASA just announced that the Kepler spacecraft, which has been scanning the stars...

While we've never found a planet that's exactly like Earth (and we probably won't for a long time), we've been getting closer. Just...

In the middle of tremulous times here on planet Earth, NASA has offered us a way out. Well, at least a look out.NASA just launched a...

After the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures shined a light on mathematician Katherine Johnson (portrayed by Taraji P. Henson) and...

Out in the vastness of space, capturing any sort of cosmic event can take years depending on how far it is from Earth. However,...

We all know about 'The Pale Blue Dot' - a picture of our ocean-covered home planet from far, far away. But what if there were another...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks every year in the early morning of November 17, offering stargazers a fantastic opportunity to see a...

Early this morning, the so-called "supermoon," the Moon's closest approach to Earth since 1948, reached its peak. The Earth's...

Saturn's moon Titan has always been a mystery, especially because its dense atmosphere wouldn't allow astronomers to peek at its...

Stephen Hawking has been pretty explicit about what he thinks of contacting aliens: if they call, don't answer. Hawking is also one of...

Today, a study was published that announced the news we've all been waiting for: aliens are trying to talk to us. More specifically,...

Tonight, September 30th, North American skywatchers might see something strange: a patch of sky with no stars, caused by a rare "black...

A weird, greenish blob in the sky near the Aquarius constellation has puzzled astronomers since its discovery in 2000--what was making...

Each year, the Royal Observatory Greenwich chooses the most beautiful, informative, out-of-this world photos that captured the wonder...

Have we just made contact with extraterrestrial life? (Or, more accurately, has extraterrestrial life just made contact with us?) An...

The Planck satellite has recently gathered data that has led to some new calculations regarding the size of the observable universe....

Dark matter has been elusive to astronomers for decades; it composes approximately 27% of the matter in the observable universe, and...

Earlier this month, rumors started flying that astronomers had found a small, terrestrial planet orbiting in the Goldilocks zone of...

In an ancient Mayan text called the Dresden Codex, stargazers created a "Venus chart," which maps a type of "leap year" in the Mayan...

Over the last few years, Kepler has discovered thousands of exoplanets, several of which are considered to be potentially...