Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20 with the summer solstice, the day with the greatest amount of ...

Could a passing star be on a collision course with our solar system and, eventually, Earth?It’s difficult to know if such an outcome is likely. Recently, researchers have found the Milky Way likely ...

Water in the great, cold nurseries where stars birth has a cosmic fingerprint. Astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

Earth’s rotation reached record speed in 2025, shortening days by up to 1.63 ms. It could be about to happen again as Earth continues to spin more quickly.

Spurred by rising utility bills, St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem, Mass., looked for alternatives. Its “Heaven ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

Adventure seekers and travelers might argue that summer informally begins with the Memorial Day weekend. Then there's solar ...

West Paducah’s Shawnee Steam & Fossil Plant fired its first coal stack — generating electricity for thousands inside the ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instruments were taken offline in March. One especially power-hungry instrument – ...