In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

San Antonio-built satellites on mission to stare at the sun, opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time last week.

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the Sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear in close conjunction.

By adopting Sunswap's refrigeration system, Birds Eye would eliminate about 24 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually ...

The trio is a rarity—and when all of its unusual traits are considered together, it is unique.

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.