Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

A rocky planet 40 light-years from Earth ... star like our Sun dies, it swells up to form a red giant large enough to engulf ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that ...

Each week this summer, IDEAS is presenting five episodes around a special theme.

The sun and Earth will have a special interaction this week. Here's why it matters.

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing the telescope on.

Earth, like most planets out in the cosmos, famously spins on an axis, but what if it didn’t? What if one day, instead of twirling at 1,040 Miles per hour it just suddenly stopped, coming to a ...

A Provocative Theory by NASA Scientists Asks: What If We Weren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth? The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would ...

Why Earth’s Orbit Around The Sun Isn’t What You Think It’s not as alarming as it sounds.