Star Wars isn't very explicit about what is shot out of a handheld blaster or from the cannons on an X-wing. They sure look ...

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

The technical term for it is planetary alignment and, throughout January and into February, four of the six planets – Venus, ...

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered a new ninth planet in our solar system, according to research led by Terry Long Phan from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University, and it's not Pluto.