Study stuff in space. Check. Give talks about universe. Check. And every time I give a public astronomy presentation, whether it's about black holes or the Big Bang or the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

A "potentially hazardous" space rock the size of a football stadium is about to reach its closest point to our planet for more than 100 years, and it won't get this close to us again for centuries ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space might be only a small slice of reality. The idea that the universe could be hiding several additional ...

To see the word's premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point 2, a location in deep space on the opposite side of Earth from the sun that is farther away ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to expand its space station to six modules from three in coming years, offering astronauts from other nations an alternative platform for near-Earth missions as the ...

Does the size of space — those zillions of stars and zillions of miles of nothing between them — freak you out? Well, if it does, guess what? You're not alone. I give a lot of public talks about the ...