In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen ... cosmic rays emitted in supernova explosions. Thomas Do, an astronomy graduate student at Michigan State University ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Calçada WASP-127b is a huge, puffy sphere which is one of the least dense ... The research is published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...

Explore the captivating journey of ancient Greek astronomy in which mythological tales and mathematical precision mix together.

What sort of a celebration is Chinese New Year? Cheu contiunues: “China is huge. It includes many cultures and people in ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.

The instrument exploits the phenomenon of optical levitation to "trap" glass nanospheres with light inside it, thanks to which it is possible to simultaneously observe phenomena typical of both ...