A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

A Chinese calligraphy enthusiast writes blessing words for visitors during a cultural festival marking Lichun, or the ...

If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just an arbitrary gimmick, but it ...

The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The Isthmus of Panama formed, connecting North and South America, and the ...

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be seen by extraterrestrials from a mammoth 12,000 lightyears away. The ...

Featuring folk performances and display of time-honored brands and intangible cultural heritages the festivity was held here ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Astronomers now suggest that the small celestial body, initially dubbed Earths “mini-moon” 2024 PT5, might be a lunar ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...