Twelve Years Around the Solar System This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency ...

Kim Stanley Robinsons seventeen novels and six story collections have been translated into 24 languages. Collectively, his Mars trilogy has won all the major science fiction and fantasy awards.

There's a class of objects journeying around our solar system dubbed "centaurs." They don't come near Earth, but NASA just ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan famously wrote that humanity has a responsibility to “preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only ...

DCU’s Dr David Long has a flare for predicting space weather. Earlier this year, the strongest solar storm in two decades lit ...

In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase. At this point, ...

As you’re budgeting for a solar panel system, you may come across three types of solar panels. Each one can come with its own price tag, so consider the following price differences before you ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home to one of the most significant and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal America’s rich artistic and cultural ...

We explore various proposed resolutions, including the possibility that intelligent life is only listening to the cosmos, and ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space.

Solar eclipses thrill skywatchers every year. You just have to be in the right place at the right time. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a ...

There's bound to be something any child (or child at heart) will love in The Toy Insider's Holiday Gift Guide for 2024.