Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Clement J Williamson, a famous photographer based at the Studio in Scalloway, always had a deep interest in the night sky. In ...

Inverclyde astronomy expert Stephen McAllister describes his hunt for the Crab Nebula - and the pool and darts skills he honed along the way.

Space is a busy place, filled with celestial objects bumping around. They’re always out there but from time to time get our attention more than others, and we seem to be in such a time, with the ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Musi ...

The light wasn't the first thing people noticed. It was the noise. Earlier this year, people in parts of Indiana and ...

Turns out evidence of alien life might well have been discovered much closer to home.

A huge explosion ripped through a fireworks shop in a village in Jiangsu province, eastern China, leaving two others with ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Did you see a fireball meteor Tuesday night? According to the American Meteor Society, over 90 people reported seeing a meteor across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and ...