A traveller’s guide to the best places to be when the light goes out - The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

But in space or on the Moon, there are no power lines, no sunlight at night and no backup grid. Every system — from life ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...