"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) -- Hubble's telescope successor expected to launch in 2018 -- should be able to peer deeply into the atmospheres of alien planets to try to see if they ...

Weak on plot but pretty as a sunset (on the whole human race ... to graphically scary extraterrestrial horror movies, from “Alien” to “Event Horizon,” whose alien adversary acts ...