I n a world first, Chinese scientists have been able to find a satellite using an infrared laser during the daytime. The ...

While the eta Aquariids occur over a period of roughly a month and a half, they put on their best showing between May 3 and ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

However, some astronauts said they were far from lonely when cruising through the abyss of space. Michael Collins, who ...

The ZWO Seestar S50 is one of a cluster of these automated marvels that have arrived in the past few years. Like the others, ...

Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern ...

32.This wild-looking thing is a balloon apron from World War I, a giant net suspended from balloons that was used to help ...

President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he is renaming Veterans Day, which is on Nov. 11, as "Victory Day for ...

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers every year including the Eta Aquarids. When this meteor shower lights up the ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.