Astronomers have investigated a puzzling binary star system in which two stars that may have formed together now show ...

A new Keck Observatory study indicates that giant planets can spin faster than more massive brown dwarfs, revealing important ...

The weather on Earth can get pretty messy sometimes. But in space, it can be wild, and the effects can be far-reaching. Solar ...

There is so much information about the world and life itself out there that it’s almost unfathomable. And every now and then, ...

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...

A triple star system in which the stars all eclipse one another from our vantage point is standing out as one of the best ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far ...

"I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about." ...

For the first time, astronomers have filmed a planet-forming disk in motion, watching the swirling material around the young ...

Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.