The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

View of Earth from space. Image source: studio023 / Adobe To fully understand how these human-built megastructures affect Earth’s rotation, though, we have to dig into the math a little bit.

It’s perhaps the first ISS image to show both a sunset and sunrise in ... Pettit added: “Visible are circular star trails ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

Today's ice cream shops offer so much more to vegans than the standard sorbet. We sampled vegan scoops from some of the ...

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

A new study has cast doubt on the accuracy of the first-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.