Space

On the outside, Saturn almost looks like a calm, bland world, but once in a while, huge storms flare up on the…

Now this is really bad weather - a dust storm that doesn't just cover an area, or even a hemisphere, but the entire…

Asteroid impacts on Mars created underground cracks in the ground that filled with water and might have been the…

Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius invented Canes Venatici in 1687 to honor the two hounds of Bootes the Herdsman,…

Last month, we star-hopped around the constellation Leo and explored some of the Lions most prominent galaxies.…

The Sun's radiative interior extends to about two-thirds of the solar radius and is the source of our star's…

A STAR THAT has mimicked two supernova explosions since 2009 has finally blown itself apart for real. The discovery…

When you think of the name Herschel, the first person who probably springs to mind is Friedrich Wilhelm — more…

Scientists have known for nearly a century that matter is composed of atoms, which are various combinations of…

Wolf-Rayet stars are among the rarest objects in the Galaxy, with only 500 examples known in the whole of the Milky…