Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

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Imagine standing in the heart of a sun-scorched desert. The wind hushes, the world holds its breath, and suddenly, a deep, thunderous boom rolls across the sand—so startling and powerful, it seems as ...

A collection of objects just 120 light-years away is a truly gob-smacking, one-of-a-kind system. It consists of two brown ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

A n intriguing new study suggests that the universe may rotate once every 500 billion years. If correct, the authors believe that it could explain one of the most annoying puzzles in astronomic ...

Its proximity to Earth – about 50 to 70 million kilometers from mid to late April – means we catch more of its light, so it ...

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde ...

The northern lights could be visible in western Washington from Tuesday night into early Wednesday due to a strong ...