A ninth planet may exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt, a region populated by icy bodies that orbit the Sun.

A recent study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics revealed an exciting new discovery: a ‘cosmic tunnel’ in ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Nov. 11, 2024 — Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests ... of gravitational wave astronomy to argue that ...

NASA Solar System Ambassador Ellie White is conducting two astronomy events at the Huntington Museum of Art (HMA) this month.

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly The moonrise and ... During both Full and New Moons, the Sun, Earth, and Moon are in alignment, generating “spring tides.” These tides can swing exceptionally ...