About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

A meteor was captured on an Alaska State Trooper's dashcam as it hurtled through Earth's atmosphere in broad daylight.

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...