There is a dwarf planet out in the Kuiper Belt that has been named Quaoar, and it tends to get more attention than would normally be expected. This is for several reasons, including the fact that it ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — With Halloween just over a week away, homes and businesses throughout the Austin area have been decorating for the occasion. To spread the spooky spirit, we pay homage to some must-see ...

This marks the first time astronomers have observed the formation of a ring system. Saturn isn't the only planet in our solar system with a ring system. While Saturn's rings are the most dramatic, the ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

One woman was able to find the ring, reminding Huffer that "there are still good humans and people who care about others out there" An engaged couple was sent into chaos after the groom-to-be ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a ‘dark object’ concealed within a warped ‘Einstein ring’ located 10 billion light-years away. This significant finding advances our understanding ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Back then, the task felt like a rookie chore. Now, it's a weekly reminder of a friend. When Courtland Sutton entered the league in 2018, the late Demaryius Thomas instructed the ...

Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

"My heart sunk," bride-to-be Hannah Huffer says of the ring mix-up Hannah Huffer/Tiktok Groom-to-be Tyler Schuster mistakenly returned his fiancée Hannah Huffer's real engagement ring to Amazon ...

Iceland has long been known as the only habitable place in the world free from mosquitoes. (Antarctica is also mosquito-free, but is not habitable to humans). The Nordic country has been spared from ...

With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have spotted the most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) yet. The discovery could give astronomers a better understanding of how these unusual objects — ...