Winter solstice occurred Thursday at 12:30 am, Eastern time. Throughout the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice celebrations help beat back winter's gloom and usher in longer days.

by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor An ancient galaxy that formed just after the birth of the universe has been photographed by telescopes on Earth and in space, and is the brightest galaxy ever seen at such remote distances, astronomers say.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009.

The way our planet temporarily captures asteroids suggests Earth should have at least one extra moon at any one time. Asteroids captured by our planet essentially become extra moons, say astronomers.

By Mark Carreau HOUSTON - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a three-man, multinational crew is speeding toward a Dec. 23 rendezvous with the International Space Station, following the start of a two-day transit with a successful Dec.

Researchers have developed a clever way to achieve the lowest temperatures ever recorded on Earth. Achieving such temperatures is necessary to study fundamental properties of matter and the strange effects caused by quantum mechanics.

When I was a kid Pluto was a planet. It was stripped of planet status and now is called a dwarf planet. The Hubble telescope has found evidence of complex organic molecules on the surface of Pluto.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has taken its first close-up images of the giant asteroid Vesta, revealing the space rock in a wealth of new detail.

Frankincense has been used and traded for thousands of years. That popularity might be coming to a relatively sudden end. Research recently indicated the Boswellia trees frankincense is made from are in decline, and could actually experience about a ...

by Don Reimer Each December I begin this Christmas Bird Count summary with the same basic premise: which is that every year is entirely different!

By Larry M. Elkin Dec 22, 2011, 8:57 AM Author's Website If the world's poorest and least-developed countries discovered a magic fountain of money that gave them $100 billion a year, how could they best use it?

A new baby orca was photographed Saturday in a pod that lives in Puget Sound. The Northwest Fisheries Science Center posted a website photo Wednesday shot by scientist Candice Emmons.

by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer This year was quite an eventful one in spaceflight, with many vessels launching toward the heavens - and a few crashing back to Earth.

Burbank officials on Tuesday rescued two malnourished mountain lion cubs that were hiding under a parked car after residents reportedly tried hitting them with broomsticks.

Residents of Birmingham, Alabama woke last Friday to skies that looked more like an ocean, with a series of huge "wave" shaped crests rolling slowly across the sky.

The Asian citrus psyllid, which is about 3 to 4 millimeters in length, can be found on citrus trees. University of California, Riverside scientists have released 281 small, stingless parasitic wasps to combat the infestation by the psyllid, ...

There is good news from Vermont this Christmas for the little brown bat, a threatened species that's hanging on to existence “by a tiny little fingernail,” said a state conservationist who's watched them die by the millions in the Northeast from a ...