“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

T he Carmel Bach Festival opens its 88th season Saturday evening for two full weeks overflowing with evening and daytime ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

In the summer of 1900, a group of sponge divers off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island, stumbled upon a shipwreck that ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Other citizen science groups contributed as well, including the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Sub Group 1 (TFOP SG1) and ...

Other citizen science groups contributed as well, including the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Sub Group 1 (TFOP SG1) and ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...