For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Science fiction often imagines life on planets but real astronomy suggests some of the best candidates may be moons instead.

Grab a pen and paper and prepare to grow your watch, read, do and listen lists with our editors' picks for the best of the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19, marking a key moment in the journey ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

From Florida's Kennedy Space Center to Space Center Houston, the best space museums in the U.S. get you up close to rockets, ...

If you’ve missed every meteor shower this year, you have one more chance in 2025. And the best has been saved for last.  The ...

Stéphane Picard, owner of astrotourism company Cliff Valley Astronomy, lives in a suburb called Quispamsis, in a place called ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

Step outside late on Sunday night and you may just be treated to a sight like this. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Auto news: ...

The northern lights might be visible over Illinois Monday night. Here's how residents can catch a glimpse and take a photo ...

Space weather is notoriously hard to predict, but one forecast map shows parts of Indiana might see the northern lights low on the horizon Dec. 8.