A rare August morning alignment brings Mercury, a thin crescent moon and the Beehive Cluster together in the predawn sky.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Iowa as an incoming speedy solar wind could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.

The star, named WD 0525+526, is located about 128 light-years from Earth. Though it appeared rather standard at first glance through visible light, further observations using the Hubble telescope ...

Viewing with the aid of 10x50 binoculars will bring the light cast by a stellar cluster into sharper focus, or even allow you ...

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how much it has contracted.

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

New Glenn will also carry a secondary payload as a part of the NG-2 launch. A technology demonstration from satellite ...

The effects of Earth's changing climate is driving up the number of legal suits related to environmental issues ...

The new AI tool could help astronauts diagnose and treat medical issues when far from Earth and beyond the reach of doctors.

On Episode 173 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik look back at the week in space news.