Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

A spectacular new image of the Heart Nebula is captivating astronomy enthusiasts, revealing an energetic star-forming region ...

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

Learn about the chemical signature that may be the first evidence to come from proto Earth, the unruly first phrase of our ...

The verb ‘to fathom ’ originally meant to take soundings of the depth of the water. This led to the word fathom meaning to ...

Scientists found unusual sulfur in moon samples from Apollo 17. The discovery reveals new clues about the Moon’s ancient ...

The Orionid meteor shower peaks during a new moon, Comet Lemmon gets closest to Earth and a crescent moon slides past Mercury ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki ...