Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued that science and innovation are the keys to saving the planet ...

On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge Congress to restore NASA's science funding ...

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WISPIT 2b, a gas giant five times more massive than Jupiter, is the first planet of its kind to be observed growing inside ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

Astronomers have uncovered a runaway feeding frenzy in a rogue planet drifting freely through space, devouring six billion ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

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In “Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7),” SETI Institute astronomers Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro highlight two rare and compelling discoveries and the crucial role of citizen scientists ...