A new study has found that solar flares—sudden bursts of energy from stars—can trigger short-term weather changes on planets far beyond our solar system. The research, published in The Astronomical ...

As the planet closest to the Sun, Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest planet in our solar system, but Mercury's ...

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...

The Science on Main initiative group is seeking feedback from the community on what to add to the planned Solar System Walk ...

Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The observatory will continue the legacy of its ...

Eighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “ Science-The Endless Frontier .” In this report, Bush described the ...

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

When a young star forms, a ring of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk forms around it. Together, the star and the disk ...

UW was among the founding members of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, whose discoveries are expected to revolutionize ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.