A parade of planets is coming this January, but if you miss it, you can catch it in later months. Six planets in our solar ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Rayet 140, has been closely studied, revealing the formation and outward expansion of carbon-rich dust shells. Data from the ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

In Yarmouth, Maine, you can come pretty darn close! Prepare to have your mind blown by Eartha, the largest rotating globe on ...

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature Geoscience,” describes how the minuscule dwarf ...