Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...

UNM-Taos creating astronomy center to inspire those interested in space industry ...

It wasn’t supposed to be there.

Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special ...

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Description: In 1965, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory saw their Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 (LCS-1) launched into Earth orbit. It was an empty aluminum sphere and couldn't do any science of its own. But the ...

Bloemfontein could become South Africa’s top astro-tourism spot, using clear skies, observatories and planetariums to draw ...

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...

The Geminids peak annually in mid-December, when Earth passes through a dense trail of cosmic dust left behind by the ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...