The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

Did you know that the current CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere has peaked in the last million years? A further ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

While Saturn has been visible in the night sky all of September, this weekend, the ringed planet will shine its brightest.

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

Three celestial bodies are about to meet up for one night in September in a conjunction that should be widely visible in the ...

Three celestial bodies will meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the Kentucky sky. What to know ...