Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers ...

Alas, the miracle could not last. The solar storms were heating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to inflate and increase ...

Our solar system has the Kuiper Belt, but we're not the only ones wearing a snazzy ring of ice shards and space rocks. Countless other star systems boast belts of their own, which astronomers believe ...

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

While astronomers often set their sights on the stars, the landscapes surrounding their observatories can be just as ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

A Scottsdale assisted-living facility is being sued after a grandfather wandered away last summer and was found dead in the ...

SETI normally listens for extraterrestrial signals. A SETI team has switched roles and considered where aliens can hear us ...

NASA's global Deep Space Network ensures that communication with the spacecraft and probes is successful, no matter where ...

Spotted by NASA telescopes on December 27 last year, two days after it passed by Earth, the celestial body has been ...