On December 19, avid skywatchers can catch a glimpse of the mysterious visitor through powerful binoculars or a telescope when it’s around 170 million miles from our home planet ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

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"I thought that Christmas gift, a real-life telescope, was about the best thing a boy could get," columnist Terry Woster writes.

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A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

Studying ice grains in a cryogenically cooled plasma, Caltech scientists have observed how fluffy particles defy gravity and distribute themselves—insights that could be useful in computer-chip ...

Two massive galaxy clusters are slamming into each other, and for once astronomers are not reconstructing the crash from the ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe flares from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, in a new light. The new modelling of these ...