For the first time since the early 1700s, Saturn and Neptune are teamed up in fiery, trailblazing Aries. And that’s not all—both planets will spend the summer portion of their retrograde in Aries, ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

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

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...

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.

The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

The Full Moon will rise in the sign of Capricorn. An astrologer shares that this lunar month is about creating a lasting ...

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...