USSF-106 mission launches a navigation satellite for the U.S. Space Force, flanked by six other commercial and international ...

8. Speaking of sunlight, it’s composed of approximately 40 percent light, 50 percent heat, and 10 percent ultraviolet ...

Neptune and Saturn appear together in a telescope as Mars passes a star in Virgo and Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

Today in the history of astronomy, an eclipse in Scotland is associated with the death of King Henry I – over two years later ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

David Fabricius, a Lutheran pastor with interests in cartography and science, was born in 1564 in modern-day Germany. On ...

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t ...

Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human ...

The days have been slowly shortening since the Summer Solstice in June, but the change becomes more apparent here in southern ...

Look west after sunset to spot the Red Planet forming a wide double with Virgo’s 4th-magnitude beta star, Zavijava.

Fifty-eight people have been infected—and two have died—in a New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease—a severe type of pneumonia caused by a bacterium commonly associated with air-conditioning ...