A mystery almost a century old may be solved later this year. In 1937 Amelia Earhart disappeared during an attempt to fly around the world with her navigator, Fred Noonan.

On a Friday evening in the spring of 2029, an asteroid roughly the size of three football fields will slide past Earth closer ...

According to Greek and Roman mythology, Sagittarius depicts a centaur shooting an arrow. In case you’ve never run into one, a ...

Western automakers ignored smaller markets like Argentina. But China saw potential—and that bet is paying off.

Catch our satellite side by side with bright planet Venus in the western sky after sunset, not far from the bright star Spica ...

The Helix Nebula is revealing how debris from a dying star gets broken apart and mixed into the gas between stars.

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another planet's ...

Mars stands within 1° of the open cluster M35 in the early-morning sky of the 14th. Both are located at the feet of Gemini the Twins, after Mars crossed into the constellation from Taurus just two ...

Astronomers have released more than three million new spectra in a sweeping expansion that, for the first time, brings SDSS-V optical observations to the Southern Hemisphere. The data reveal ...

Space stocks are splitting into winners and losers Thursday, and the reason goes deeper than one earnings miss. What Intuitive Machines reported this morning set off a chain reaction that is hitting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The image was captured by the Meteosat-12 satellite in ...