Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

NASA scientists have revealed a groundbreaking discovery about Proxima b, the nearest exoplanet to Earth, shedding new light on its potential habitability. This historic finding opens a window into ...

Suzie Dills says people in Canton will be able to see a total lunar eclipse in March. Here's when and where to look.

The first major astronomical event visible in 2026 is a total lunar eclipse, or “blood moon.” This phenomenon is highly prized by stargazers because the entire lunar disk takes on a reddish color for ...

Arnie said, "Get your ass to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future.

A 67-year-old man was found fatally shot on the porch of his home on Monday, Feb. 16, said the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. He was later identified as renowned Caltech scientist Carl Grillmair.

It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

Over the past decade, Don’t Nod has explored the soul-sucking worlds of 17th-century America, post-WWI London, dystopian Paris, and a high school in the Pacific Northwest. But for its next trick, the ...

This February’s alignment spreads Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter across the western to eastern sky after sunset on Feb. 28. All six will appear shortly after sunset, according to ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...