Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Based on nearby places, archaeologists believe they have found a star map dating back to the Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered what may be one of the oldest known depictions of the night sky — a prehistoric star map carved into stone in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria, ...

Researchers from the University of Manchester showed how radio waves generated by military aircraft and airports are likely ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

Summer officially arrives in Dubai on Saturday June 21, and is famously a time of year when temperatures are hot, humidity is rife and some of our favourite attractions temporarily close.

Astronomy Update is provided by the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society and is compiled by Dr. Lauren Likkel.

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...