A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

In Earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 442 kph, but they ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L 98-59 b, seems to be perpetually reshaped by eruptions more violent and ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The ...