After five days of nearly non-stop snowfall, Colorado faced its largest November snowstorm in decades. The snow stopped ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

Light trails, epic TV shows and warming mugs of hot chocolate by the fire – there are plenty of things to be cheerful about ...

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of ...

Diminutive Swinburne had a very big head: when he went to Eton in the summer of 1849, his was the largest hat in the school. Like the Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard, the author of The Rings of ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

A recent study conducted by planetary scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa suggests that life could potentially exist on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The researchers propose that ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

A new study has claimed that methane gas might be trapped beneath a 9.7-kilometre-thick distinct crust of Saturn's largest ...