In a study published earlier this year, we highlighted the fact that New Mexico was the only state in the U.S. to have lost economic freedom since 1981. We now ...

As the 3I/ATLAS nears its closest distance to Earth, an international team of astronomers now says the space rock may be covered in active, icy cryovolcanoes. If true, the evidence detailed in their ...

What does electrical activity and dust storms on Mars have in common? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes ...

For every rule in the cosmos, there is a spectacular exception. While most planets orbit in a neat plane, Pluto tumbles at a wild angle and asteroids from a failed world zip between Mars and Jupiter.

A rare combination of astronomical events is capturing attention across the scientific community and among skywatchers this month as NASA tracks the interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS during its ...

The Town of Fountain Hills, along with Night Sky Tourist Star Dudes and the Fountain Hills Dark Sky Association, have ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system — but getting there is brutally hard. The journey requires massive amounts ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

The American Meteor Society noted one bright fireball above Kansas City, MO, at 6:46 p.m. Tuesday, lasting about 3.5 seconds.

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.