The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

We haven’t seen the Red Planet this luminous in the night sky since 2022. Our astrotourism expert shares how and when to enjoy the show.

Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

These storms are measured by something called the Disturbance Storm Time index, a negative measurement of the strength of Earth’s own electromagnetic field, which is pressured by the solar storm. The ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, we’re in the dead of winter and most people are spending their evenings inside where it’s warm.

But winter wildfires could become increasingly common, as California’s wet season shrinks and hotter, drier weather creeps into the winter months. The convergence of those and other climate factors ...

It is 2004 and I am traversing South Africa to write a major national newspaper report on the country celebrating 10 years of ...

Here’s something that you’ll kick yourself if you miss – a comet that only grazes the Earth every 160,000 years will be ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...