Science

Earliest sunset arrives this Saturday, latest sunrise arrives early next month. Summer constellations can still be seen ...

Comet ISON arrives at the sun on Thanksgiving Day. Observers hope the close approach will dramatically increase dust pr ...

As Comet ISON heads towards the sun, its icy CO2 nucleus is beginning to sublimate, releasing the dust trapped since th ...

Earth-like is a very relative term; mass, size, distance from star, atmosphere, temperature, orbiting period are all fa ...

Question: What other solar system body has lakes? Answer: Titan, the largest moon of Saturn (slightly bigger than our m ...

Largest known star (16,000 light years away) shows signs of imminent destruction. W26 is 3,000 times the diameter of o ...

Orionid meteor shower tonight — Let’s talk meteor showers for a minute. Majors, minors, what to expect, whe ...

An ancient stone owned by Tutankhamun has been identified as a piece of comet nucleus, the first ever discovered on Ear ...

97% of NASA employees have been furloughed as a result of the partial federal government shutdown. A prolonged shutdown ...

Methane on Mars? Earlier methane indication suggested existing life or recent life underground, but newer data from the ...

Hubble discovers a globular cluster cluster – 2.25 billion light years from earth in a cluster of galaxies called ...

Thursday’s full moon is the Harvest Moon, which is the full moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox, which arrives S ...

Be very afraid: this Friday marks the first of two Friday the 13ths this year. The Epsilon Perseid Meteors are a real s ...

Did you happen to notice that little dot near the crescent moon just after sunset today? Emerging out of the Lincoln Tunnel at tha ...

This Friday night, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere And Dust Environment Explorer is scheduled to launch from the Mid-Atla ...