Astronaut Don Pettit shared a Milky Way photo from the ISS showing stars, a red airglow band, and colourful light streaks ...

See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

A spiral galaxy roughly 10 million light-years from Earth is offering astronomers a rare glimpse into the forces that shape ...

Can you still see the Milky Way from your city? An analysis of 50 Indian cities reveals that only six have skies dark enough ...

Hydrogen cyanide was crucial for early Earth chemistry. A new study says comets almost certainly didn’t deliver it like we’d previously thought.

Astronomers using early data from Rubin Observatory have identified two previously hidden companions of the Milky Way. One is ...

The study asserts that it is very unlikely that comets brought ingredients of life to Earth because most of them would not ...

We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What is below Earth, since space is present in ...

Yesterday, I watched a planetarium show at the Osaka Science Museum.Perhaps because it was during a long weekend, the dome, ...