About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

A partial solar eclipse takes place when the moon's orbit places the natural satellite directly between the Earth and sun ...

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.

This skywatching quiz will test your knowledge of how eclipses, when to see them, and what makes each one so spectacular.

The fall equinox is a significant event in any tipped planet's life. Seasons are caused by a planet's tilted axis. Those which orbit the sun standing nearly straight up and down with little to no ...

The bottom half of the world, known as the Southern Hemisphere, is about to be treated to a partial solar eclipse that won't ...

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 ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...

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 ...