An astronomy professor explains what exoplanets are, why he keeps looking for them and how Israel intercepts missiles “in ...

Behind the long-term climate projections that affect our lives sits one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the modern era.

NEW YORK (AP) — Six planets are linking up in the sky at the end of February, and most will be visible to the naked eye. It’s ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

Some of the planets in our Solar System are gigantic. But what if they got even bigger? Let’s go up the planetary size chart ...

Caption: An elephant’s trunk is one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals that this sensitivity is partly powered by over 1000 whiskers. (MPI-IS/A. Posada and ...

Slow-moving objects in the sky have usually been put there by people. For example, in 2017 I got queries about what proved to be a giant Nasa balloon, launched from Wānaka, lit up by the setting sun ...

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of two planetary pile-ups in the same turbulent star system — providing potential insights into how planets form 1. Observations from the early 2000s indicated that ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...