On balconies and in backyards, Wi-Fi–enabled telescopes are connecting astronomy enthusiasts across six continents.

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

A local astronomy group gathered Friday evening to see the “Parade of the Planets”. The Astronomy Club of Augusta gave dozens ...

A spectacular outer space phenomena known as the planetary parade is expected to happen on Friday night. Shortly after dusk, ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

A minimum of a master’s degree in natural sciences, medicine, engineering, mathematics, or computer sciences or a degree as ...

Just because a gas moon is possible, does not mean they will form easily. The key thing about gas planets is that they are ...

Six planets are visible in the night sky right now. On Feb. 28, Mercury will add a seventh planet to the planetary parade. Venus, Mars and Jupiter are 'great naked-eye targets' for beginning ...

Among them are physicists Vasyl Kladko and Lev Shubnikov. Kladko worked on semiconductor physics and was deputy director of the Institute of Semiconductor Physics in Kyiv. He was killed in 2022 at the ...

who will present "The Mystery of Planet Formation" at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 26, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall. Chambers received a B.A. in physics from The University of Oxford, and a ...

Particle physics is the study of the elementary building blocks of matter and radiation and their interaction. The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. This includes leptons ...

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south pole that are visible only in springtime on the Red Planet. This image ...