The dwarf planet 1 Ceres is in conjunction with the Sun at 5 P.M. EST today. While this means we can't see Ceres for now, we ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...

Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.

After launch, the SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage booster settled down for landing on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions ...

A bald eagle sits atop a tree facing Millerton Lake as seen during the Millerton Lake eagle tour program on Sunday, Feb. 2, ...

Kentucky lawmakers hope to follow Tennessee as the second state to ban what they call “geoengineering” — the theoretical concept to counter climate change that some baselessly claim is already ...

One witness in Havre de Grace, Maryland, recorded video of the eerie glow, showing the fireball resembled a silent explosion that lit the early morning as most people slept. Nine witnesses from ...

Ever wondered about the white lines stretching across the sky? These are contrails—condensation trails formed by aircraft engines. While they might seem harmless, they play a role in climate change ...