Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

Engineers have nearly finished building the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China. The detector is a massive underground sphere designed to capture ...

Stellar Stories Hera spacecraft launched The European Space Agency's Hxera spacecraft launched on October 7, initiating an ...

Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.

Science journalist David Baron is an umbraphile, an eclipse chaser. He says a solar eclipse is the ultimate experience of awe--a reminder of our profound relationship with the sun. This segment of ...

From this vantage point, the Occulter’s disc will block out the surface of the sun, just as the moon appears to cover the sun during a total solar eclipse. This will allow the imaging craft to ...

If April 8’s total solar eclipse across North America did anything it put a pair of solar filters — in the form of eclipse glasses — in millions of households. It’s time to go find them ...

The total solar eclipse on April 8 this year had a big economic impact on Vermont, according to the Department of Tourism and Marketing. Two studies showed the eclipse generated nearly $35 million ...