Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these depths could further scientific understanding, but also lead to exploitation.

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

Solar eclipses offer a celestial show. The article details four types: total, annular, partial, and hybrid. A partial solar ...

Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, Fuzhou University, and Shanghai Normal University published these findings in the ...

Columnist John Breunig gets starry-eyed taking a tour of the new Planetarium & Astronomy Center at the Stamford Museum & ...

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Saturn is about to make its closest approach to Earth, and that means you might be able to see its rings — if you have a ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...