Chinese astronomers have discovered that the Milky Way is not a simple, smoothly warped disk, but contains widespread "wrinkle-like" structures resembling ripples on a water surface, providing new ...

Some sky-gazers may see a dazzling meteor shower coincide with a total solar eclipse in a rare celestial alignment this week.

A Tropical Depression could form by the end of the week in the Central Tropical Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center announced.

Italian researchers will test a new spectrometer, CISS, during the 12 August total solar eclipse in Spain, hoping for a ...

The Murchison meteorite carried something far older than Earth. Scientists found tiny silicon carbide grains inside it that formed nearly 7 billion years ago, long before the Sun existed. The ...

Beyond the orbit of Neptune, in the cold and nearly empty reaches at the frontier of the solar system, astronomers suspect a ...

At the edges of the solar granules, the image reveals fringed-looking structures that display swirling motions. Credit: NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS The world’s largest solar telescope and advanced computer ...

The newest map from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys was 13 years in the making and contains nearly 4 billion objects. The ...

When Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft left Pluto behind, its journey was far from over. The probe had already travelled farther ...