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, ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

The Lamat Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a cohort-based research program designed to advance ...

On a frosty January afternoon at New York City’s Ripley-Grier Studios, Emily Saliers, Beth Malone and Starstruck’s ...

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.

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Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned ...

President Donald Trump is determined to answer a question that has tormented humanity for centuries: do aliens exist?

The woman who became an overnight internet punchline after being caught on Coldplay’s kiss cam is now turning that viral ...