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.

Astronomers have discovered a collisional ring galaxy that existed when the Universe was just 3 billion years old, a find which could have implications for our theories on galactic evolution.

NASA and SpaceX made history today with the launch of second demonstration flight of the Crew Dragon (Demo-2), which signalled the restoration of the US' domestic launch capability!

SpaceX suffered yet another setback when their SN4 prototype exploded into a fireball during a static fire test of its single Raptor engine.

This Saturday, NASA and SpaceX will make their second attempt to send astronauts to the ISS from US soil for the first time since 2011!