Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

November’s planet parade begins just after sunset. If you have a super low southwest horizon, you may try to spot elusive Mercury. The swift planet will hug the southwest horizon ...

This week’s new arrivals on streaming include the return of Keri Russell as U.S. diplomat Kate Wyler in Netflix’s The ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...

Dante Lauretta sat in the backseat of a helicopter hovering high above a remote patch of Utah desert, waiting for a small, twinkling speck in the sky to plunge toward Earth. If you didn ... atop a ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and ...

With November almost here, it’s time for streaming users to look ahead at what the next month has in store. Major streaming ...

NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun. Astronomers have been tracking the so-called ...

When it first appeared in September, the comet seemed favorable. An outburst brightened the cosmic snowball, making it appear larger than average Kreutz fragments. Predictions for the comet had it ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...

Ronald Reagan gave one to Mikhail Gorbachev. Gerald Ford was a fan. Bill Nye The Science Guy keeps one in his New York apartment. Henry Kissinger and Frank Sinatra both owned one. Malcolm Forbes had ...