On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

Volunteers use thousands of flowers and other plant material to prepare floats for the 136th annual Tournament of Roses ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

Today is Thursday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2026 with 364 days to follow. This is New Year's Day. The moon is waxing. Morning ...

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals ancient secrets and strange chemistry as the largest object of its kind ever tracked.

Dr. Ray Jayawardhana, a distinguished academic leader and world-renowned astrophysicist currently serving as Provost of Johns ...