It has been hard to miss: All week we’ve seen Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest objects in the sky this week, edge closer and closer together...

Alaska residents in the mainly Native town of Venetie have been offered $1,200 for information leading to a piece of fallen rocket and $500 for nose cones, doors, payloads and othe...

It’s a soupy, steamy sauna, smaller than Uranus but bigger than Mother Earth...

They gyrate like ghostly belly dancers, wisps of plasma interweaving above them...

The three brightest lights in the sky are not stars, but planets—Mother Earth’s very own satellite, the moon, plus Venus and Jupiter—and over the next week they will converge on on...

More than 7,500 years ago Eta Carinae, one of the Milky Way’s most massive stars, belched 20 times the sun’s mass in what has come to be known as the Great Eruption...

Inuksuk High School went cosmic on February 8 when nearly 700 students, elders and community leaders packed the auditorium to snych with astronauts on the International Space Stati...

Russian scientists claim to have successfully drilled through two miles of glacial ice to reach Lake Vostok, buried under Antarctica for 14 million years...

There’s no need to keep one’s eyes peeled for tonight’s lunar phenomenon—it will be in your face with the luminescent Snow Moon, which is attracting a lot of online chatter both fo...

The near-Earth Asteroid 433 Eros, so named upon its 1898 discovery on the same night, August 13, by Gustav Witt in Berlin and Auguste Charlois at Nice, is the first asteroid to be ...