A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical ...

Have you ever wondered how long it took our sun to form in its stellar nursery? An international collaboration of scientists ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

Samantha Harvey's Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize . What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

As the Earth orbits the sun, it pulls itself through comet tails, resulting in meteor showers, and occasionally picks up the occasional extra moon along the way. For the month of November, stargazers ...

Topekans seven times in the coming week should be able to watch the International Space Station pass overhead after dark in the early evening.

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...