This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Ahead of its dance with Saturn on Feb. 24, Mercury should be seen on Feb. 19 at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

These discoveries reveal not just the planet’s past but also suggest ... and forth between the surface and deep Earth, potentially even implicating underground, deep-sourced water stores in ...

It was a meteoric rise. The odds that “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting a ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

And one of the invisible bands, which is unlike any similar structure seen before ... (58,000 kilometers) from Earth's ...