At a glance, Saturn’s rings appear calm and pristine when observed from afar. These rings are quite narrow and consist mainly ...

Are either of the moons of Mars large enough to eclipse the Sun as seen from the surface of Mars? Paul MancusoMilpitas, ...

During the seven minutes that his heart had stopped beating, he wrote that he didn’t see a tunnel, angels or anything like ...

For the first time in Brazil, researchers have identified a field of tektites. These are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of extraterrestrial bodies against Earth's surface. These ...

Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 20Once the waxing Moon sets this evening, its ...

An astrophysicist who was clinically dead for seven minutes after cardiac arrest has shared his unique near-death experience, challenging the famous 'white light' phenomenon and explaining what his br ...

An astrophysicist who suffered cardiac arrest shares his extraordinary account of being clinically dead for seven minutes – ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two ...

The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a ...

The silence at their 50th anniversary party was deafening—not from lack of guests or conversation, but from the way my parents moved through the room like ghosts haunting the same house, never quite ...