For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before ...

NEW ORLEANS — Astronomers using a NASA space telescope have discovered a region of the sky with a mysterious concentration of some of the universe's highest-energy radiation. The astronomers were ...

Around midday, Earth’s ionosphere sometimes experiences sharp, short-lived dips in its electron density—an unusual phenomenon known as a noontime bite-out. A new study takes a global view of these ...

Pegasus the Winged Horse might be the most well-known horse-themed star pattern in the sky, but he is not alone. Once you find Pegasus, slowly sinking in the west this evening after sunset, next ...

The hunt for nectar can take honeybees kilometers away from their hive into unknown territory—and yet, they always find their way back. The sun's position in the sky serves as a kind of compass for ...

The stars you see tonight won’t be in the same place a million years from now, and some familiar constellations […] ...