Over the next decade, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will scan each section of the sky about 800 times, building a record of ...

As Iran and US President Trump contradict over talks in Qatar, Israeli strikes killed five people, including a child, in the ...

June 30 marks Tunguska, Congo independence, and Soyuz 11, plus events from Hernán Cortés to Tower Bridge, Hitler’s purge, and ...

Communities around Oklahoma are getting ready for incredible firework displays on July 4. Here's a look at some of the top ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's ...

The team behind the observatory, a joint effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, unveiled several images of the cosmos that were jampacked with celestial ...

Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over ...

From June 19-20, Michigan residents sent in reports of a fireball (bright meteor) that streaked through the sky around 8 p.m. on June 19.

NASA and the commercial company Katalyst Space have concocted a plan to stop a powerful astrophysics satellite from hurtling ...

NASA launched a robotic mission to raise the aging Swift Observatory into a higher orbit, extending its scientific life and ...

A powerful new observatory in Chile has begun a 10-year survey of the southern sky, and Rutgers astrophysicists are among the scientists who will use its vast stream of images and data to explore some ...