Space

Major solar flare: The sun emitted a major solar flare on May 12, the strongest of this year so far, according to NASA.

People in Northern Australia were in for a rare treat on May 9: a solar eclipse in which ...

An anonymous former CIA official gave a video interview about extraterrestrials and what he called a cover up ...

Meteor shower this weekend: Just a few weeks after the Lyrid meteor shower passed over the Earth, skywatchers ...

Lunar eclipse Thursday: The lunar eclipse happens when the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon.

Meteor shower April 2013: NASA scientists with the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama will broadcast the ...

Pink full moon Thursday: The April full moon, generally called the “pink moon,” will take place on Thursday, ...

Meteor shower peaking: The Lyrid meteor shower, which takes place every year in April, will peak on Sunday ...

A galaxy cluster called “The Phoenix Cluster,” which is 5.7 billion light-years away from Earth and is forging ...

NASA Kepler discovery: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft will soon reveal a new discovery it made via the Kepler space ...

NASA: A test rocket will launch from a small facility on April 17

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has captured a detailed image of IC 1295, a planetary nebula ...

The connection known as quantum entanglement, which defies the laws of classical physics, will be tested over long ...

The more we learn about the formation and evolution of our solar system, the more we realise it ...

A red dwarf star and a black hole are orbiting each other once every 2.4 hours, a new ...

NASA, with the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee, has produced non-weapons grade plutonium to power future space ...

The atmosphere of the faraway gas giant HR8799c gives us clues about how it formed and perhaps how ...

We celebrate memorable sounds connected with outer space as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield takes command of the International ...

Australian researchers have developed a substance that looks and behaves like soil from the moon’s surface and can ...

Deep images of the sky reveal that the universe contains billions of galaxies. Some, such as our own ...