For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

Gravitational distortions produced by distant galaxies show a slight—but notable—disagreement with Einstein's predictions.

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

For example, Professor Williams and his co-author point out that, if the moon were formed from a ring of debris slowly ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Discoveries about Uranus, the solar system's enigmatic planet, challenge previous assumptions, highlighting the need for ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

Moonlight obscures most views of meteorites, so viewing should be better when there is no moon or ... to hit Earth. But she ...

Data provider DDHQ projected on Monday that President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party had won a majority in the U.S.

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

“This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator,” said Liam Courtney-Davies, lead author of the new study and a postdoctoral ...