A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

By day, Chris Boone leads the USC Price School of Public Policy as dean. By night, he captures the wonders of the cosmos ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

Albedo is building satellites to map and monitor the Earth with powerful precision and detail for use in agriculture, energy, ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

With the world set to blow past its temperature targets, efforts are growing to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

The database, which is now public, was launched by the Investigative Journalism Foundation. It contains letters from parents, ...

The algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...