WHENEVER Yolandi Boshoff looks up at the night stars – she isn’t looking at the Moon or one of Elon Musk’s starlink ...

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It’s December, and we’re in our darkest month. It is also now meteorological winter — the name given to the coldest three ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. For ...

Plus, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and the winter solstice arrives Dec. 21 at 10:03 a.m.

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership with the Asteroid Foundation. Sunday's livestream is due to start at 3 p.m.

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

Everything you need to know about what’s happening in the night sky this month ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A novel "X-arithmetic" technique reveals how black holes shape the universe's largest structures.