Video of a meteor streaking across the sky in southern Alberta was caught on many dashcams and home security cameras ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

Today, bolometers have been replaced in our spectrometers by electronic detectors, and Langley is mostly remembered for his contributions to the development of airplanes, his focus after he left ...

American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up with an equation in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable ...

French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier is celebrated for his groundbreaking work in predicting the existence ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...