It’s not often that art lovers have the chance to walk through a room full of paintings by the great Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. After all, there are only about 35 of his pieces still in ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

As Eric Jan Sluijter argues, Vermeer’s Art of Painting is meant specifically to display the superiority of its own medium over other art forms: “Vermeer seems to indicate that the other ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

DEAR ABBY: I have been an amateur astronomer for 25-plus years. I always go meteor watching as well as observe any celestial event. This year I invited my brother-in-law and his wife to watch a ...

The vice president-elect had Trump supporters throwing tantrums over the weekend after he said that some of the Jan. 6 rioters “obviously” deserve to stay behind bars. By Ja'han Jones JD Vance ...

Prosecutors still blame Trump for the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The report details the violence and trauma that law enforcement, lawmakers and staffers endured that day ...

When you gaze up at the constellation Hercules, you are looking out the front window of the spacecraft called Earth. Our planet is hurtling at some 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h) toward the star Lambda ...