While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

The mysterious planet Nibiru has fueled apocalyptic theories, from a potential Earth collision to links with ancient aliens.

A small asteroid, referred to as Earth's temporary "mini-moon," could actually be a piece of the Moon that broke away ...

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

The researcher who is trying to trace the “hidden” fragments of the Stone of Destiny believes she has decoded another mystery of the ancient artefact – Roman numerals which were etched on to it. A ...

Up for a best actress Oscar is Erivo, who secured her second acting Oscar nod for musical The Wizard Of Oz prequel Wicked, along with new nominations for Mikey Madison for playing a stripper who falls ...