Astronomers are gearing for one the rarest events in the Solar System: an alignment of Earth, Venus ...

Sky gazers in some parts of eastern Asia and western United States will witness the celestial event ...

Some 4,700 potentially hazardous asteroids with diameters larger than 100 meters are loitering in ou...

For the first time, NASA's Spitzer spacecraft has detected light emanating from a previously-found S...

Stumbling upon a weird phenomenon, astrophysicists have caught four white dwarf stars, in the dead e...

Planetary scientists have claimed that flinging pebbles at an asteroid could help deflect the Earth-...

Cosmic fireworks will cast their spell on sky gazers on the night of May 5 when the annual Eta Aquar...

Earth-like rocky planets that humans could live on may be more common in the universe than stars, sa...

Changes in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter some three to four billion years ago hurled a ...