For the first time in Brazil, researchers have identified a field of tektites. These are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of extraterrestrial bodies against Earth's surface. These ...

Are either of the moons of Mars large enough to eclipse the Sun as seen from the surface of Mars? Paul MancusoMilpitas, ...

During the seven minutes that his heart had stopped beating, he wrote that he didn’t see a tunnel, angels or anything like ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 20Once the waxing Moon sets this evening, its ...

An astrophysicist who was clinically dead for seven minutes after cardiac arrest has shared his unique near-death experience, challenging the famous 'white light' phenomenon and explaining what his br ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two ...

Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially ...

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the cold edge of our solar system, millions of icy objects drift quietly in a region called the Kuiper ...

At first glance, the image itself doesn't seem like much. In a field full of sharper galaxies, most of them younger, closer, and simpler to comprehend, there ...