The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today's weather report, which is coming at you from a strange, extrasolar world, instead of a standard TV studio. That is thanks to ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

TUMAUINI, Isabela — The Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) has approved P6 million worth of environmental ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Des Moines' bus system will be overhauled in summer 2026, featuring fewer routes but more frequent service. The plan aims to create a more reliable, all-day system reflecting post-pandemic travel ...

One of 2025’s promising Indie darlings is back with another big update. The developers, Semiwork, are back with one of their silly meme-focused community updates, showing off the new content coming to ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

The S&P 500 slid 0.4% on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, as investors looked ahead to key remarks from the Federal Reserve chair Friday. Shares of First Solar and other solar companies fell after President ...

Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region ...