Following Saturn is Venus, rising in New York at 2:51 a.m. on July 25. Venus is in Taurus, and so bright that it is immediately identifiable; it will look like the brightest "star" in the sky. By ...

THE most anticipated meteor shower of the year, the Perseids, will peak on the night on August 12/13 when around 80 meteors per hour might be ...

The EU’s new methane rules threaten U.S. LNG exports. But industry insiders and lobbyists are pressuring the EU to look the ...

When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sailed past Jupiter in 1979, it recorded a stunning and unusual phenomenon—plasma waves as ...

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

The solar wind plasma goes from moving at about 400 kilometers per second (900,000 miles per hour) to being diverted and ...

Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, th ...

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Prasun Chaudhuri on a science camp for school children in West Midnapore steered by astronomers from the Indian Centre for ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in collaboration with the ground-based Keck II telescope, has for the first time ...

Use our interactive globe to see if you’re in the ‘zone of disappointment’ for the Perseids – then save these dates for ...

This engineering graduate has turned a schoolboy interest in stargazing into a passion for capturing the cosmos.