Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

For folks in the United States, July evenings mean 4th of July fireworks. While you're waiting for the show, be sure to watch ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of the big star in our solar system.

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

Episode 4 of Jiwi’s Machines explores the science behind the inclined plane one of the simplest yet most powerful machines in ...

On the 88th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced a joint expedition to locate the ...

An expedition to a remote and tiny island this fall will attempt to locate Amelia Earhart's plane​ in the Pacific Ocean.

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

Then residing in Massachusetts, Earhart jumped at the opportunity to be the first woman to partake in a transatlantic flight.

Purdue University, which helped fund her historic 1937 flight, said it will send a team to a remote island in the South ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...