George Fitzgerald Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 ...

The viewing of the newly discovered comet will get better through this month. Here are some tips on finding the comet.

I grew up in Central Florida, close enough to the Space Coast that shuttle launches were part of my childhood soundtrack. There's nothing like watching humans strapped to controlled explosions arc ...

For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog. Credit: Directed by: L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser Hosted by: S. Randall Written by: A. Briggs, S.

From the huge smoke plume seen from the LA wildfires to a new sweeping view of Earth, these space images will give you a new ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars and monitoring the Sun are stepping in to track 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet hidden ...

When it comes to habitable places in our solar system, the tiny moons of Saturn don’t seem likely candidates. Yet time and time again, they’ve proven themselves to be exciting places for life. Europa, ...

Cassini image looking across the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on 30 November 2010. Jets of water from the moon's underground ocean are visible bursting through cracks in the ice.

Underground oceans on moons “are perhaps the best candidates for the emergence of extraterrestrial life in our solar system. This work only confirms the need for further studies,” said University of ...

This moon in Aries will be bringing firey cosmic energy to the end of the year Does everything feel a little more vivid right now? Come October 7, we’re due for a Harvest Supermoon. And it will push ...