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

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A pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. What it is: The variable ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

For nearly a decade, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has been working to bring together resources through ...

In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor Jodi Foster) takes a space-alien-built wormhole ride to the star Vega ...

offer an affordable entry into solar astronomy. They are available in six sizes for cameras, binoculars, and small telescopes, and will fit apertures up to 1.9 inches to 4.2 inches (50 mm to 109 mm).

From the intricacies of subatomic particles to the vast expanse of the cosmos, our faculty and students are engaged in groundbreaking research that addresses some of the most pressing questions in ...

That was because it took 1.3 seconds for the question to travel ... One of the great scientific ideas of the 20th century astronomy was the discovery that there are other galaxies out there ...

Neutron stars contain some of the universe’s most exotic states of matter – but there’s no easy way to peek inside. A slowly flickering source of radio waves that changes over time might be ...

Astrology and astronomy. These two words sound alike, and some people even use them interchangeably, but they couldn’t be ...