Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

MORE SPACE PHOTOS —Hubble spots a stellar 'H-bomb ... which stretches 100 million light-years across. In turn, the Virgo Supercluster is part of a larger structure of galaxy clusters called ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years.

Better catch this week’s supermoon-- it will be a while until the next one. The upcoming supermoon will be the fourth and ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

Astronomy and Engineering. With NASA planning another mission to the moon and private companies such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic emerging in recent years, Lee expects a new “Space Race” era ...

only appears to move 0.77″ over the course of a year, which is only a few camera pixels with long-focal-length telescopes and is less than 1 pixel for shorter telescopes.

By Eric Lipton First Images of the Sun’s Flares Released From ... embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter. The company completed a successful test flight of the most powerful rocket ...

In galaxies far, far away…we’ve discovered so much since the turn of the century. Here's a look at some of the greatest ...

The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter ... A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed ...