It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

An accomplished CalTech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in the Antelope Valley.

At dawn on February 22 and October 22, sunlight in Abu Simbel’s Great Temple illuminates three statues, underscoring 3,000-year-old astronomical engineering. The Abu Simbel Sun Festival highlights the ...

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

Silent Sky,” Lauren Gunderson’s remarkably human play about the hard science of astronomy, brims with emotion. Currently ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

SpaceX landed a rocket in The Bahamas for the second time ever on Thursday (Feb. 19). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral ...

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn morning in the Southern Hemisphere (false dawn). In early autumn, the timing ...

A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, ...

The LOFAR radio telescope has delivered the most detailed radio map of the northern sky to date. It provides new insights into active galaxies, star ...