From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

While it's easy to romanticize space as an escape to a pristine frontier where people will float weightlessly among the stars ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

It's not quite clear what the latest Trek series wants to be: a rollicking adventure, a college coming-of-age story, or a ...

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and the company’s executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, has announced together ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...