Asteroid passes near Earth on September 7. At its closest (18:18 UTC / 2:18 p.m. EDT), it's about the same distance from Earth as weather and communications satellites.

Astrophotographer Justin Ng has just returned from Mount Bromo. Here's what a night on an active volcano in Indonesia looks like.

Saturday, September 6, 2014, is the first World Shorebird Day. How to participate, here.

A composite of 1/2-second of time when two objects in space converged. ISS is at 300 kilometers and the moon is at 384,000 kilometers away.

Researchers have uncovered a 77-million year old, plant eating, super-massive Titanosaur. The huge animal weighed as much as a herd of elephants.

Heads up, stamp collectors and astronomy enthusiasts! A collection of new stamps from the Isle of Man, which has 26 Dark Sky sites.

Yet more evidence that many worlds in our Milky Way galaxy have two suns.

The Republic of the Philippines in Southeast Asia - in the western Pacific Ocean - consists of 7,107 islands.

Astronomers have learned that our Local Group of galaxies - known to be part of the Virgo Supercluster - is also part of an even-larger supercluster. The newly identified supercluster is called Laniakea, which is Hawaiian for "immense heaven."

We love coffee! Coffee is the second most-traded commodity on Earth, after oil. How does the world's favorite drug actually work?