Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.

Object Details Author Land, Barbara Contents Hans Lippershey's ingenious spyglass -- Galileo's new window on the heavens -- Johannes Kepler, the nearsighted wizard -- Isaac Newton's reflecting ...

Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of ...

A Maryland mother was arrested and charged with the murder of her 3-year-old daughter after lying to police about the child's abduction, officials said.

Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th ...

A woman who police said made up a story about her 3-year-old daughter being abducted from her at gunpoint in Delaware has been charged with murder after the remains of a child were found.

A 15-year-old girl has died, and three others are injured after a building partially collapsed during a graduation party in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on Saturday.

The Calypso telescope, once the only privately owned telescope atop Kitt Peak, will begin its journey to its new home on Chile’s Cerro Pachón mountain soon.

At the appointed time, her patients will dial in, and the 100-year-old psychologist will pick up the phone. Increasingly hard of hearing, she presses her cordless handset tightly to her ear.

Laguna Beach police are investigating a crash that left a man dead and his teen daughter injured. The father was teaching his daughter to drive when the fatal accident occurred.

9-year-old girl bit by shark while snorkeling in Florida, family says According to a GoFundMe for the girl's family, she "had to be rushed to the hospital" after being bitten by a shark.