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

Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different ...

This week, early risers can look for Mars and Saturn on parade with a slim crescent Moon.

One of the world’s most famous astronomical clocks looms over a side street in the old city of Prague, with a complex ...

Oumuamua was discovered in 2017 and was determined to be the first object ever seen inside the solar system that had come ...

June’s pre-dawn sky finds six planets strung along the ecliptic, spanning 72° on the 1st. In order of increasing elongation ...

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

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

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

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

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

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