Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.

Reaching the stars will require ideas that push the limits of physics and human endurance. This exploration examines futuristic concepts such as generation ships, suspended animation, and light-driven ...

A six-planet parade — an alignment of Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter — is coming Feb. 28. When and where ...

Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 ...

Despite the dramatic name, these alignments aren’t exceptionally rare. The last six-planet parade occurred in January 2025, ...

Launching crowdfunding campaign as they work their way back to life, Ariel Cunio and Arbel Yehoud say they're learning to ...

Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D ...

Scientists from IIT Kanpur and NCRA Pune have developed a groundbreaking method to measure distances between Earth and ...

We have known for several decades that the universe is expanding. Scientists use multiple techniques to measure the present-day expansion rate of the universe, known as the Hubble constant. These ...

Look to the skies in Alabama on Satuday. 6 planets are about to align in a stunning sky 'parade.' Can you spot them all?

Skygazers across Texas and beyond can catch a glimpse of six planets arcing across the night sky this week in a so-called ...