A curious phenomenon might be occurring in TW Hydra, one our solar system’s closest neighboring stars. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Japanese researchers have been ...

I hate to say I told you so, but… I wrote this as a Berkeley Daily Planet editorial just about 20 years ago, in April of 2004. “The ancient Greeks told stories about the history of the world as they ...

The ancient Greeks told stories about the history of the world as they knew it which are still a useful way to predict what will happen to humans in the modern world. Hercules, half man and half god, ...

Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Based on the distance from the central star and the ...

If you lived on one of Pluto's moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data from NASA's Hubble Space ...

When the International Astronomical Union set the astronomical boundaries for the 88 formally recognized constellations in 1927, the result was a wide variety of constellation sizes and shapes. The ...

What might be the first directly visible planet orbiting a starlike body other than our sun was reported by scientists from Europe and Los Angeles on Friday. The "faint and very red point of light" ...

Here on Earth, our days are predictable, with sunrise following sunset each day at regular intervals. The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But what if that wasn’t the case? What if the Sun ...

Scott Kenyon receives funding from NASA to study the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Eighty-five years after Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, we’re finally getting an up-close and ...