The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...

In the past quarter century, astronomical observations have led to discoveries that have literally transformed our conception ...

The parade of planets starts as two worlds come close and the Moon moves on down the line in the sky this week.

The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau.

Scientists combing through data from the Magellan mission to Venus found recent lava flows and may have discovered active ...

An astrophysicist explains how the Chandra X-ray Observatory detects X-rays to produce images of events such as black holes ...

In 2006, astronomers ‘demoted’ Pluto from a major planet in the solar system to a dwarf planet. But was Pluto snubbed? Our ...

Galactic archaeologists have discovered primordial streams of thousands of stars in the Milky Way that may be the genesis of ...

The Moon reaches Last Quarter as it travels past several planets in the sky this week. Plus, pick up a comet, star clusters, ...

This week, we have another beautiful conjunction in the morning sky as the Moon slides by Saturn and its magnificent ring ...

A new simulation of the Sun’s magnetic field may lead to a better understanding of solar storms and forewarning of a ...

This Neptune-like world orbits a Sun-like star in a binary system, where conditions are right for liquid water to remain on ...