The European Space Agency's spacecraft Euclid on Wednesday released a treasure trove of new data in its quest to map and ...

Spring officially arrives Thursday, March 20, with the spring equinox. It also marks the arrival of allergy season across ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, which is March 14 or 3/14 — the first three digits of an infinite number ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

Halaku, in pursuit of better political fortunes, saw fit to fund an establishment that could meticulously keep track of the ...

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history ... I wanted first to get a sense of its scale. That's difficult—sediments containing fossils from the ...

The word equinox comes from two Latin words meaning equal and night. That’s because on the equinox, day and night last almost the same amount of time — though one may get a few extra minutes, ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The moon appeared to turn red as Earth passed directly between it and the sun in what's known as a total lunar eclipse. Their perfect alignment darkens the moon, from the perspective of folks ...