Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hopes to politicise Mother Nature. He has asked the Commerce Department to investigate whether staffing cuts at the National Weather Service offices in Texas ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Tomkins and his team reconstructed an unusual rise in the number of meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spike, ...