The world's frozen oceans, which help to keep the planet cool, currently have less ice than ever previously recorded, ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The highlight of this cosmic event is Venus, which will shine at its brightest on Sunday, February 16, making it the most ...

Small-scale fishers do labor-intensive work, generally in simple, locally owned boats using traditional technologies. Despite ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

There is an estimated 2.3% chance that the 2024 YR4 asteroid is heading our way. Here's everything you need to know about the ...

A new study offers a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, findings that are an exciting step toward understanding the development of planets and their atmospheres, the lead ...

From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...