Pluto once held its place proudly as the ninth planet in our solar system,a distant, icy world on the edge of the cosmic frontier. But in 2006, everything changed. This in-depth explainer unpacks the ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

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The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

John McDonough is looking for more investors whose infusion of cash, he says, will enable larger-scale manufacture of his ...

Y’all got wonder or not, whenever you look up at the star studded sky and the moon, what else might be up there? If you haven ...

There’s debut albums, and then there’s Switcheroo — a record so vivid, it feels like Gelli Haha has been building this world (the ‘gelliverse’) for a lifetime.

A glowing object lit up the sky, prompting dozens of calls to the authorities, as scientists scrambled to figure out what it ...

There is great interest in the topic of how long humanity will be able to exist on the Earth. For many years people have ...

It’s human nature.” These computer-generated maps of Pluto at different longitudes were made from the current best images of the planet, taken in 2002-2003 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The existence of the planet, named AT2021uey b, took years to verify. Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a ...