In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife Island, looking for sharks, when they caught sight of something much ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Photographer David Jara Boguná filmed a humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii, a species of black seadevil) swimming ...

With 10 films in the iconic sci-fi franchise that spans centuries of in-universe time, it's fair to wonder if the earlier ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

The video has provoked an enormously empathetic response on social media, with some seeing the fish as a feminist icon or an Icarus-like figure who swam too close to the Sun. The reaction shows ...

On Feb. 28, a stellar alignment of planets will illuminate the night sky for the last time in a decade Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Calling all stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts ...

On any given night, weather permitting, you can spot at least one bright planet in the sky, and lineups of four or five planets, seen by the naked eye, typically occur every few years, according ...

Most are expected to be visible to the naked eye, though not all seven. The alignment is known as a planet parade — a planetary lineup in space from Earth’s perspective. The alignment takes ...

This stunning photo shows every single planet in the solar system at the same time during a rare alignment that won’t happen again until 2040. Taken from a field in Somerset, the groundbreaking ...

Picture: iStock Make a date with the night skies this Friday when all seven planets in our solar system will briefly align in what astronomers refer to as the “Great Planet Parade”.

These conjunctions aren't rare, but they do get rarer with each planet added to the chain. The three innermost planets — Mercury, Venus and Earth — align within 3.6 degrees in the sky every 39 ...