In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

A total lunar eclipse will tint the Moon red-orange on the night of March 13 or early in the morning of March 14, depending ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Despite growing interest, astronomy remains an expensive hobby in Bangladesh, with telescopes being costly and light pollution in cities limiting observation ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...