Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

The Mercury challenge: With the ecliptic—the centerline of the zodiac and plane of Earth’s orbit—making a shallow ... did ...

While buying a travel pillow at the airport is always an option, I’ve been sleeping much better on planes since I started planning my in-flight sleep routine ahead of time. A good travel pillow ...

The best telescopes for astrophotography are ideal for both stargazing enthusiasts and those who want to capture the cosmos with their cameras. So which model should you buy? Well, that depends a lot ...

A 37-year-old Kansas woman was killed after she backed into a plane's spinning propeller while trying to take photos, officials said. Amanda Gallagher, a photographer, was on the plane to snap ...

The invisible points in the sky where the moon’s path crosses the ecliptic plane are called either the north node (in the northern hemisphere) or the south node (in the southern hemisphere).

She made her own thoughts clear in the video, writing: “Canned tuna on the plane gotta be up there in terms of crimes against humanity.” National etiquette expert Diane Gottsman, owner of the ...

We tied 7th in the UK for the quality of our Physics research environment, with 75% considered to be conducive to producing research of world-leading quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms ...

Airline prices change all the time, but there’s a way to figure out when to buy tickets for your next trip. As a travel editor, one of the questions I get asked the most when friends or family are ...

The FAA is investigating. The incident prompted the runway to be temporarily shut down while the Delta plane was towed away, a Massport spokesperson said. A ground stop was issued for a short ...