If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

January 5, 2005, is an astronomical anniversary that is not really marked but should be. It saw the discovery of dwarf planet ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Photographing the deep sky at night can be a complicated business involving specialist knowledge, expensive and bulky ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

DwarfLab has revealed the smallest smart telescope to date – and significanly lighter and more portable than its existing ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...