Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon. Methinks all things have traveled since you shined, But only Time and clouds, Time’s ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected ...

The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...

There’s a full moon rising in the grit and grind, strive and shine sign of the sea goat. The full buck moon will peak ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

July's full moon is known as the buck moon and will peak on Thursday, July 10. The full moon is a phase when it appears to be ...