At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very active M dwarf star. Its flare activity has been well-known to astronomers using ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

WEATHER AT YOUR SCHOOL WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD TODAY! OUR MARISSA VIGEVANI HEAD OVER TO ST ALBANS TOWN EDUCATIONAL CENTER TO ...

A stronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...

As the images came back from New Horizons in 2015, showing us Pluto for the very first time, the dramatic shots of the dwarf planet inspired the imaginations of billions. Having actually seen the ...

Since it received its new status of a “dwarf planet,” Pluto can console itself with finally being the largest of something in the Solar System. Due to its proximity to the Kuiper Belt ...

Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known moons, respectively. Despite not technically being a planet anymore, Pluto has five moons. The 128 new Saturnian satellites are all considered irregular moons.