A few decades ago, the Solar System had nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as ...

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

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

Nikki Glaser kicked off the 2025 Golden Globes doing what she does best! From the "Wicked" cast to Timothee Chalamet’s ...

Astronomers have captured a breathtaking new image of thousands of galaxies, thanks to the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

SpaceX is set to launch another rocket from our Space Coast on Monday. The company is aiming for an early afternoon liftoff ...

The University of Central Florida’s Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) payload is hitching a ride ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...

In a jaw-dropping find, astronomers have spotted a “newborn” exoplanet that could seriously boost what we know about how ...