Here's what happens as the direct rays of the sun slip south of the equator as the seasons change.

Built between 3600 and 2500 BCE, Malta’s Mnajdra temple complex ranks among the world’s oldest religious sites. Aligned with solstices and equinoxes, its walls hold 179 drilled dots linked to lunar ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron ...

If your observing site has a limiting magnitude of 6 or better, you have an opportunity to see an elusive sight known as the ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

(Ph.D., she/her) is one of a few space journalists in Canada. She has written five books, and was Space.com's former staff ...

Whether you are in the U.S. hoping to spot Venus beside the moon today, or in Europe awaiting the rare occultation, September ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.

Using a specially designed solar telescope combined with an astronomy camera, he captured the rocket’s silhouette cutting through fiery shockwaves in the Sun’s plasma.

TWO huge planets will be visible in Irish skies today in a display only seen every fifteen years. Saturn will be visible to people over the weekend as a bright star in the sky. And Venus will pass ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...