Following Saturn is Venus, rising in New York at 2:51 a.m. on July 25. Venus is in Taurus, and so bright that it is immediately identifiable; it will look like the brightest "star" in the sky. By ...

The days have been slowly shortening since the Summer Solstice in June, but the change becomes more apparent here in southern ...

The current record-holder occurred on July 5, 2024, when the day lasted 1.66 milliseconds shorter than usual, according to ...

Did you feel it? The planet spun a bit faster last week, by enough to give us our shortest day of the year, so far.

The Southern Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are not the best showers of the summer, but they reach their peak on the ...

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a ...

As the Earth spins faster this summer, the days are just slightly shorter. But those milliseconds are adding up.

The optimal period for meteor shower viewing is typically in the predawn hours, when the moon is positioned low in the sky, ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

CHICAGO — An annual festival on the city’s Near West Side is bringing some big-time country music acts and some of the country’s top pitmasters to Chicagoland this week. The Windy City Smokeout, an ...