Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...

The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after the Victorian stargazer, who studied the skies for 25 years ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in ...

A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way. Mr Roberts, born in 1829 and the son of a ...

In justifying during a Thursday night press conference the stunning decision to trade linebacker Micah Parsons to the Packers, Jerry Jones invokes the Herschel Walker trade. Jerry, I witnessed the ...

A video depicting Cracker Barrel’s Uncle Herschel — who was kicked off the company’s new logo in a corporate rebrand, sparking customer outrage – has gone viral, with its animated mascot singing “Go ...

A view of the center of our galaxy shows the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, where cold dust (magenta) and warmer gas and dust (cyan) surround a cluster of massive stars. The stars generate high-speed ...