Year? A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light moves incredibly fast — about 186,000 miles (300,000 ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni, 81, died on December 9. She used language as a tool to inspire, celebrate, and ...

Hurricane Helene struck the Florida coast with fierce winds and devastating rain. However, the effects of the storm did not ...

After acing a steep monthslong climb up the rim of Jezero Crater, the Perseverance rover is about to see a part of the red ...

New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. By Katrina Miller The shower forms from the debris of an asteroid ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Connect your telescope with one of the best laptops for astronomy as you gaze at planets, the 'Cold Moon' and meteor showers this December. Plenty of astronomical events linger on the horizon as ...

Sunny Vagnozzi Source: Nature Astronomy ‘The general educated public has heard about many key terms of modern science: 'evolution,' 'virus,' 'quantum theory,' and the 'big bang,' for example. But the ...