The universe has given us abundant holiday light shows: natural fireworks for the winter solstice, northern lights to ring in ...

Astronomers finally discovered the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs)–mysterious and powerful bursts from outer space first ...

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a ...

Happy New Year and happy perihelion day! Earth is closest to the sun today at just 91,406,000 miles (1.55 million miles ...