Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University of Southampton in ...

“My ego was telling me: These aliens have programmed you to be a rock star!” he recalled. “So I used it as a tool to write songs about outer space and the future, songs like Crack In The World and ...

No one’s ever really gone. Jedi Master Luke Skywalker became one with the Force at the end of 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, only to return, in Force ghost form, as the mentor of Daisy Ridley’s Rey ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, an ancient oceanic plate is tearing apart, dragging the Earth’s crust with it. What was ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Sci-fi planets like Dune's Arrakis and Star Wars' Tatooine might look cool, but according to NASA they're more fiction than science.

Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the next edition. Each month, WTOP is showcasing the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding the moon, planets and stars.

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.

Recent research led by Lowell Observatory found information about how planets are formed through studying the DF Tau binary star system. The study combined data from the Atacama Large Millimeter ...