Biologists debated whether the aliens were winged or gilled. Inventors devised schemes for communicating with Mars.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) Humanity’s drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with ...

The Space Dome has landed at The Centre, Livingston, where shoppers can enjoy a 360° planetarium film experience through the ...

On the early morning of October 19, a slender crescent moon pairs with the brightest planet, Venus, creating a stunning ...

When we think of a day, we usually imagine 24 hours. But did you know that not all planets have days that last 24 hours? In ...

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 ...

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

COON RAPIDS - Participants in the Iowa Star Party don't want to keep the wonders of the night sky to themselves. They are ...

ALMA captures surprising activity in comet C/2014 UN271, Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, the largest ever detected.

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

Two bright green comets are streaming through the skies and are visible to skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere. Both hail ...

The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...