Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

“This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system,” said Dr. Rosemary Pike, lead researcher from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. “It shows that even very distant regions ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) was the first person to hypothesize that the seeds of life are present ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

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

Welcome to 90 Miles To Cuba, Key West’s most delightfully eccentric treasure trove that makes your grandmother’s attic look ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

The moon-man is painted with rock … specifically, basalt, the dark rock that flows from Hawaiian volcanoes, paving the ...

The planet position data below gives you a clear picture of the alignment of the planets today as per astrology. What is the Moon position today? What is the position of Mars or Saturn or Jupiter ...