Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the latest additions to the Maine Solar System Model, billed as the largest solar ...

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

Ever since the International Astronomical Union recognized Haumea and Makemake as dwarf planets in 2008, University of Maine ...

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

Ample sunshine, ice cream, and afternoons at the beach might leave you wishing that summer would never end. Unfortunately, ...

Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental ...

Sooner or later, something worse than bird droppings is bound to hit your solar panels. Read on for solar panel repair tips and learn what you can do to locate similar panels.

The lowest-cost path to a carbon-free grid involves large-scale wind, solar and battery power. But that could change as new technology is developed.

Astronomers caught a star system at the moment when solid grains began to form planets. This snapshot reveals how planets first start to form, just as Earth once did. The infant star HOPS-315 sits ...

Astronomers witness dawn of new solar system for 1st time Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star.