The crescent Moon lies in Taurus near the planet Uranus. You can easily spot the distant ice giant with binoculars or a small ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

Researchers characterize the structure of liquid carbon for the first time, thanks to experiments at the European XFEL ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 20The summer solstice occurs at this evening at 10:42 P.M.

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can look forward to a dynamic week of celestial events, from the official ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same ...

Nearby supernova blasts may have severely altered Earth’s climate history Tree rings reveal spikes in carbon-14 from ancient ...

For example, water levels rose more than 300 feet at the end of the Ice Age, flooding the cave system ... found the 15,000-year-old remains of giant sloths, proto-elephants called gomphotheres ...