Astronomy

Three years ago on Halloween, a 2,100-foot-wide asteroid came just within 300,000 miles of Earth—the closest an object of that size...

Whenever you feel like science has gotten a pretty good understanding of how things work in the universe, it's important to...

Every new space discovery we make seems to reinforce one thing: the universe is a lot more complicated than the Drake Equation led us...

Astronomers have made an incredibly significant discovery in the form of a so-called "hairy planet" orbiting around a red dwarf...

Far, far away, 350 million light-years from Earth, a pair of galaxies are currently locked in an explosive embrace as they combine...

If receiving the exact date of humanity's ultimate destruction by asteroid wasn't unnerving enough, the Earth will have a brush with...

Space is a wonderfully beautiful thing; ripe not only with billions upon billions of twinkling lights, but also chaotic, destructive,...

In 1961, the famous Drake Equation strung together seven variables to give an estimate of how many detectable alien civilizations are...

If 2001: A Space Odyssey has taught us one thing, it's to stay away from long, monolith-shaped space objects--a lesson Dr. David...

Good old Cassini - the probe that just keeps giving us new information, even after its fiery death.While Cassini may have now burned...

Four-hundred years ago, a telescope was relatively simple: grind a couple lenses, stick 'em in a tube, point and look. Now we have the...

Comet 45P last flew by the Earth around early February 2017, and if you had a chance to see it, you probably remember it as the large...

Sky watchers patiently waiting for the moon to go big this year will finally be rewarded in a couple of days as the only supermoon of...

'Oumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid ever discovered, may be within our reach.  Hurtling through our solar system at more...

Don't panic, but a giant asteroid may hit Earth in 2036.Or, at least, it's going to get pretty close to Earth. The jury's still out as...

Take a moment to remind yourself of one of the most iconic moments in the history of science fiction.Luke Skywalker, frustrated and...

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...