We have more power than we might think. As the luminous Sun forms a cooperative sextile with transformative Pluto at 2:20 PM ...
For generations Pluto stood as the mythic ninth planet until a scientific revolution shattered that legacy and transformed it ...
For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...
The Washington and Washington State men's basketball teams have played every year since 1917. There are no more games between ...
On a chilly morning in February 1930, a young astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh was hunched over a blinking comparator at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, studying pairs of photographic plates of the ...
Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define solar objects.
The electronic sign by the door of the cafeteria at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where I work, shouted “6000 CONFIRMED PLANETS.” While 6000 is not a magic number, it is a milestone. Given the ...