Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

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

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

Earth is the only known place where humanity exists — where humanity can exist. It is the only known place where laughter, ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?