Scientists may have discovered why the orbits of some planets decay, ultimately leaving these worlds to "death spiral" into ...

As we gaze up at the stars, we can’t help but wonder if there might be other worlds out there like our own. With billions of ...

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Marie Jeanne Welsch dreamed of being an astronaut, but she knew she would never realize that goal, because, as she writes, "I ...

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A Canary Islands volcano pushed rivers of molten lava through the earth. Now scientists and explorers trek through the ...

The month of May is not a very good one for planet observers. The two brightest planets – Venus and Jupiter – are out of sight through this entire month because of their close proximity to the ...

How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical ...

Moon, sun and planets follow similar paths through the zodiac constellations, so if the sun happens to be in the same line of ...

Starfield, the excellent Digipick puzzle game surrounded by 80 hours of sci-fi mediocrity, is getting a performance update on ...

One day human beings may travel to distant planets, but in the meantime, there are always the distant planets being created at Parkside Middle School.