John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly falling apart has been spotted by astronomers after they detected an ...

A reddish star is about to pass through a "beehive" of stars. That "star" is actually one of Earth's planetary neighbors.

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

A meteor was captured on an Alaska State Trooper's dashcam as it hurtled through Earth's atmosphere in broad daylight.

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. Four ...

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds ...

A belief that Jesus travelled to India and adopted Buddhist teachings and methods has been around since at least the 19th Century when scholars attempted to explain the similarities between Christiani ...

The leftover debris from history's most famous comet will once again streak across the skies over New York. The upcoming ...