For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there's an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven't been able to see ...

A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know ...

"The key planet-formation processes in protoplanetary disks remain an active matter of research. One promising mechanism to ...

The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. But by the time we saw it, it was already ...

Using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, the team discovered a “Dark Matter bridge” connecting Perseus to a subcluster ...

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

A new Starbase city would give SpaceX room to expand, but local advocates worry about what it will mean for the surrounding ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

BOSTON, MA – A new international study has revealed that super-Earths—planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune—may be far more common in the universe than scientists previously believed.