A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...

The earliest climate models made specific forecasts about global warming decades before those forecasts could be proved or ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

While Saturn has been visible in the night sky all of September, this weekend, the ringed planet will shine its brightest.

A gem of a find by The Public Domain Review of a collection from the Rijksmuseum: photographs of plaster models of the ...