For decades, Pluto was our solar system's ninth planet. This video explains the scientific journey that led to its ...

SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

Part-time Warren County resident, environmental advocate Bill McKibben recently released “Here Comes the Sun.” ...

A new study takes a close look at TRAPPIST-1, a little star roughly 40 light-years from our sun that hosts seven Earth-sized planets.

Skywatchers will have a lot to look at in the night skies over Alabama in December. A super moon, a meteor shower and a comet ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

Around 4.4 million years ago—long before humans existed—two massive, blazing-hot stars swept past our solar system. They didn ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...