Astronomy

One of the wonderful things about astronomy is the fact that there's always something new to be discovered.Stargazers using the...

Thanksgiving is upon us again, but 2017's menu is special: Mercury will align with Saturn to make this year and an unforgettable feast...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft caught a glimpse of a monster storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere and the resulting photo is nothing...

Years ago, before the era of high definition camera smartphones and when The X-Files ruled television, amateur alien-hunters...

Pluto is far colder than it should be. Sure, it's really far away from the Sun, but based on its distance from its primary source of...

A newly discovered nearby exoplanet that looks surprisingly like Earth may be the best chance for discovering alien life we've ever...

Extinction-level events are ubiquitous in pop culture, but the impending apocalypse is more than fiction--we know the exact date the...

Wake up early on Monday, November 13 and you're bound to see a sight that's truly out of this world. One of the skywatching highlights...

This is the kind of discovery that changes everything we think we know about the universe.Astronomers have discovered thousands of...

Is there such a thing as life after death? If you're a star, there might be, but it doesn't sound too pleasant based on what we've...

Discoveries of life on Earth that survive in cold, deep parts of the oceans give us hope that similar creatures may be hiding on the...

Another day, another startling exoplanet discovery.At this point, NASA's Kepler telescope has literally found thousands of...

Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered one of the oldest galaxies ever detected.A distant...

Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star that's mostly well known for being the closest star to our own Sun, at a cosmic spitting distance...

Getting a full view of the Milky Way galaxy has always seemed near impossible, just because we're stuck inside it. It's like...

While stars are, by default, much bigger than planets, it was still generally accepted that planets of a certain size can't form...

The asteroid (or possibly comet) A/2017 U1 doesn't have a fancy name, and it isn't very big, just a quarter-mile across. But it's...

With every new planetary discovery that astronomers make, the universe becomes an even more intriguing and exciting place.Take, for...

Thousands of Russians had a literal close encounter last night with a giant glowing ball UFO that appeared in the sky above the city...

We've never actually found any genuine proof for the existence of a muiltiverse — until now.As our knowledge and understanding...