Did you know that the sun is up for more hours this month than in August? August is summertime, and May is still spring, so it may not seem quite right.

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

The UK GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair, has been unveiled at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, and ...

Launched over 50 years ago, this piece of the Kosmos 482 mission was designed to survive the punishing conditions on Venus.

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was that rare type of comet that arrived with fanfare and lived up to the hype, serving up naked-eye views ...

Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

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For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

One of the big ideas in physics is that forces change the motion of an object. If you apply a constant, continuous force to ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...