The summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year in North America.

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

There I was, scrolling through recipes (as one does when trying to decide what to eat for lunch while also procrastinating ...

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial tipping point.

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

Ober says he feels healthy, but mechanical issues have plagued him since spring training, leading to diminished velocity and ...

The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across ...

New Gophers men’s basketball player B.J. Omot will miss summer workouts due to a stress fracture in his shin, head coach Niko ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...