Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was a tropical greenhouse. Today, it's an ice-capped world. And an international team of experts led by the University of Southampton think they know why. Their new ...

There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a parabolic flight. In this exclusive mini-documentary, Space.com reporter ...

What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.

Jupiter, king of our Solar System’s planets, continues to dominate the night sky in February.  Lying inside the zodiac constellation Gemini (twins), which sits well up in the eastern sky, it is the ...

Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them ...

Ahead of the anticipated launch of the Artemis II mission, catch a glimpse of February’s full moon, called the snow moon.

February: it’s a short month, and it’s also relatively short on stargazing highlights. Still, patient stargazers will be rewarded with a memorable planetary alignment. And for those readers joining us ...

Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little faster ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...