"When you see a dead spider, it might not actually be a dead spider. It could just be its old skin that it molted, and the ...

If the supermoon wasn't enough, October is treating skygazers to another celestial delight – the peak of the Orionid meteor ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) is hosting its annual scientific meeting in Orlando, Florida from October 17 ...

The mysterious interstellar visitor in our Solar System has shifted in a way that has never been seen among comets before.

As the government shutdown approaches its fourth week, WSJ’s Anna Wilde Mathews breaks down why Democrats want to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies and who would be affected by them expiring.

ESA ran a full-scale solar storm drill to prepare for the next Carrington Event - an eruption powerful enough to disrupt life on Earth.

For centuries, humans have sought to study the stars and celestial bodies, whether through observations made by naked eye or ...

Car columnist Dan Neil learns how to pilot the first mass-produced eVTOL for the consumer market, the Pivotal Blackfly.

Bill McKinnon shares his story of a career spent studying the geology and geophysics of icy worlds beyond our own. McKinnon, ...

When an unknown object from the depths of interstellar space tumbles through our cosmic neighbourhood, it is bound to capture ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...