More than 10,000 extra US troops are reportedly on their way to the Middle East as Donald Trump attempts to put more pressure ...

New research led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, finds that ...

The waxing moon will be 40%-lit as the Lyrid meteor shower comes to a peak on the night of April 21-22, when up to 18 ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

A rare stargazing spectacle will unfold on Friday, April 13, 2029, as the asteroid Apophis passes closer than satellites over ...

Iran's delegation arrived in Islamabad on Friday, and has said talks will only proceed if previously agreed conditions are ...

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun.

A MOTHER calls her young children down to lunch, where they have been playing upstairs. Suddenly, a massive explosion sends ...

In 1952, the United States detonated the first full-scale thermonuclear bomb, unleashing an explosion unlike anything the world had ever seen. The blast released more than 10 megatons of energy, ...

Ingrid K. Williams, a former Triangle resident, has reported on North Carolina since 2010 and returns often for barbecue and biscuits. Outdoorsy, sports-obsessed and youthful, Raleigh anchors the ...

Crews have extinguished a fire at a Texas oil refinery after a large explosion sent plumes of smoke into the air and prompted a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, officials said Tuesday, ...