In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you're standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence ...

The DAVINCI spacecraft will make a daring plunge into Venus’s atmosphere, passing through thick sulfuric acid clouds and ...

Could life exist beyond Earth? This documentary investigates the solar system’s most promising candidates for alien life, from the frozen oceans of Europa to the red deserts of ...

The multi-ton shutter section fell outward onto the roof of the Great Hall, crushing several structural beams. The Great ...

Early on Thursday, Dec. 25, severe winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour tore loose half of the shutter on the 140-year old ...

In the desert stillness of Egypt's Wadi El-Hitan, a group of stargazers kneeled on the cooling Fayoum sands as Mohammed Hassan's green laser sliced through the ink-black sky to illuminate the glowing ...

But now, they're planning to build telescopes on the far side of the Moon. These instruments will probe one of the last unexplored windows on the Universe. Here, astronomers hope to get a glimpse of ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar landing tests, new rockets ...

"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...