This week, astronomers using the ALMA telescope have made a landmark discovery in the search for the cosmic "seeds of life." ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support liquid water and potentially life.

Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

Astronomers have found 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, a rare Sednoid with a unique orbit that challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis.

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

The marvelous Eise Eisinga Planetarium, the world’s oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world, dating from 1781, ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a young (20 Myr old) transiting exoplanet and found it to be unusually clear and puffy. By analyzing the planet's atmospheric features, they were able ...

Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, th ...