Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

A 2021 astronaut photo shows a triple valley system in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park where a massive ...

Forget a doomsday asteroid or melting permafrost. It’s the freezing of Earth’s core that will end the world in today’s ...

On New Year’s Day, Michael Nicolls, vice president of Starlink engineering at SpaceX, announced that the company will lower ...

During the full moon, the sun, Venus, and Mars will all be pulling up their suspenders in the sign of Capricorn, making this ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Space Forge is looking to manufacture semiconductor materials in orbit, where the microgravity enables cleaner crystals.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...