Our measurements of dark energy give contradictory results. A new study confirms dark energy, but suggests it is more strange than we thought.

Amazing things happen in the day-to-day sky, often unseen and unwitnessed in our normal routine. Just such a 'non-event' happened this week, when Venus reached inferior conjunction between the Earth and the Sun on its race from the dusk to the dawn sky. And what's more amazing, is the fact that some skilled observers followed this passage and caught sight of Venus as a tiny blazing 'ring of fire' silhouetted against the sky.

A new study by Prof. Kipping of Columbia University indicates that extraterrestrial life should be statistically significant, even if intelligent life is rare.

A new study finds evidence that the universe as a whole is rotating, and that could have big implications for cosmology.

Eclipse season resumes on June 5th, with a fine penumbral lunar eclipse.