ET four space mates with massive heads stumbled out of the smouldering wreckage of an alien ship downed by a surface-to-air ...

April skies feature close planet pairings, a bright meteor shower, and stunning views of the ancient star cluster M3.

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

A study published in PRX Life sheds some light on this issue ... The packing fraction at which objects jam together depends largely on their shape. Spherical objects, for instance, jam at a ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Rainbows happen when sunlight is refracted and dispersed in drops of rain or mist. Water is denser than air, so sunlight ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

From flaring black holes to strange early galaxies, the Webb telescope is showing us the wonders of the universe like never before.

The rock, which was closely examined and photographed by the rover, appears to be made up of hundreds of strange, ...

This particular kind of deformation is called a spherical aberration, and when it happens in the lenses of our eyes, we use glasses to refocus the light and ... the brightest objects in the ...

DESI and DES are both mapping millions of celestial objects ... their light illuminates the last 11 billion years or so of cosmic history. The DESI cosmologists focused on identifying the way that ...

However, a shadow is just where an object is blocking a source of light, so if you’re in a ... Earth's atmosphere is a spherical shell surrounding our planet. When you look straight up you ...