Celebrating America's 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was like in 1776 and what major ...

In January in Monterrey, Mexico, Iván Venzor was one of only a dozen people in the world to glimpse a potential Jupiter-sized planet crossing in front of a distant star. It happened too fast to see by ...

"Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact." This quote, attributed to Isaac Asimov, captures science's intricate relationship with science fiction. And it is hardly a one-way relationship.

Credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser/Cover Images Astronomers have warned that Elon Musk and others’ plans to put millions ...

Trying to predict anything about science or technology a half-century in advance may seem like folly. But there’s a reason we’re willing to go out on a limb. For one, astronomy is a field in which ...

Astronomy enthusiasts are my kinda people. Like me, they love all sorts of science, and science fiction, too — particularly films that lead us into a dystopian, mysterious, explorative future we can’t ...

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Astronomy is Wooten’s passion. Her love for the stars and the great beyond stemmed from a deep sense of wonder she first experienced at the age of 13. “I was walking home from a friend’s house and ...

The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope is one of 13 working telescopes on the mountain’s summit and the third to be ...

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