Queensland is bracing for more wild weather as the heatwave subsides and a tropical cyclone threatens to develop off the ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars. But these sparkling lights are just a tiny fraction of our cosmic ...

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one septillion stars, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Our sun is a typical G-type ...

Sisters has been named Oregon's newest 'Dark Sky Community,' in recognition of the city’s efforts to curb light pollution.

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the cluster shows up nicely in this fine photo of it by EAAA member James Schultz.

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

Continuing the Artemis program and using its planned lunar space station as a staging post would be a more energy efficient ...