A new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several ...

That’s exactly what researchers at the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project (VASCO) are ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Astronomers have recently made an extraordinary discovery that brings a new layer of complexity to our understanding of the universe: the Odd Radio Circles (ORCs). These strange and massive rings of ...

F or centuries, dating back to long before the invention of the telescope, people have reported odd flashes that sometimes ...

This 2018 astronaut photo shows off an unusually triangular "Christmas tree" lake in Iraq that appears to be dressed up for the holidays with a mix of both natural, artificial and illusory decorations ...

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When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking space weather and human behavior, could actually bridge such a vast disciplinary divide. Now, two years on, we ...

According to experts, the object was likely the debris of an Elon Musk SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which was launched from Florida on Wednesday. It was said to be caused by the process of excess rocket ...

A 2018 astronaut photo shows a festive, fir-tree-shaped artificial reservoir in Iraq decorated with both natural and imagined ornaments. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an ...