A SOYUZ 2.1b rocket successfully placed 52 satellites into low Earth orbit on Dec. 28 after lifting off from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome, completing one of the most technically complex rideshare ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

The Wolf Supermoon on January 3, will appear brighter due to a rare alignment of lunar perigee and Earth’s perihelion.

In 2400 BCE, before clocks or calendars, an entire city held its breath in darkness, waiting for seven stars to signal that ...

A fresh study by Avi Loeb suggests that the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS may be losing its rotational speed, sparking intense debate over its physical nature.

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and feasting on its stellar material. The observation is ...

Earth is not a still point in space, but a planet hurtling through the cosmos at incredible speeds. This video breaks down the complex layers of our motion: the 66,000 mph orbit around the sun, the ...

Alessandro Forte is a professor of geology at the University of Florida. He also has an ongoing project at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) that involves mapping the detailed ...

Regular readers of my column certainly know how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris). Some folks believe Polaris is important because it’s the brightest star in the heavens, and ...

A visual simulation of the wobble the Earth experiences on its axis every 26,000 years. This is referred to as the Earth's precession. A visual simulation of the wobble the Earth experiences on its ...

Earth’s ice ages don’t come and go at random; they follow a strict cosmic schedule dictated by the planet’s orbit. A new study has cracked the code behind these glacial transitions, revealing how ...