For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania in bipolar disorder, provoke seizures in people with epilepsy or trigger ...

Black holes have always been considered mysteries in the world of research, with their composition, orbit and purpose largely ...

From two meteor showers to the second supermoon of the year, here are the top astronomy events to mark down on your November ...

Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial ...

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows crimson as newborn stars ignite clouds of gas and dust.

The Albuquerque Astronomical Society is bringing the night sky down to Earth with the Cosmic Carnival on Saturday, Nov. 1.

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

"Ten, nine, eight…” shouted students at St. Matthew’s as they sat behind a chain-link fence, watching a science experiment ...

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

Four winners of this year’s awards reveal ‘grit behind the glory’ after they overcame challenges to achieve breakthroughs in ...