June is one of my favorite months and a perfect season to get out for some stargazing. This week, however, the moon will be arcing across our early ...

Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

It seems crazy,” Princeton physicist Chris Chyba remarked, reflecting on the device that now sits at the center of a debate ...

The device appeared to violate the conclusion that any conductor at rest with respect to Earth’s surface cannot generate power from its magnetic field,” Princeton’s Christopher Chyba added in a press ...

TV from every era, none of it terribly well-curated. There’s a lot there, and the choices can be a little overwhelming—but ...

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar ...