The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025 as the band ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit. It is not immediately ...

Meteor showers, eclipses and full moons will appear in our skies this summer. Mark your calendars with these dates, stargazers.

By the time it hits the Earth, Mr McDowell says Cosmos 482 will be "going only a couple of hundred miles an hour". "But it's still a half-tonne thing falling out of the sky at a couple of hundred ...

Venus dominates the early morning sky and teams with a much fainter Saturn early in the month. Saturn's rings are turned nearly edgewise to the sun and Earth and ... almost half-lit (49%) by ...