In 1978, NASA scientist Donald Kessler warned that runaway collisions in orbit could trigger a self-sustaining debris cascade, making space travel nearly impossible. Decades later, crowded orbits, ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

Scripps Ranch-Recently, I interviewed both the actor and director of Scripps Ranch Theatre’s Donna Orbits the Moon. Ian August’s one-woman show stars the incredibly talented Susan Clausen. Yesterday I ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

CBS News’ newest “star” contributor issued a lengthy statement riddled with justifications—and contradictions—regarding his ...

Additionally, she has tackled The Color Purple for New Village Arts. She was elated to be tapped for Donna Orbits the Moon ...

Why does hydrogen require a specific amount of energy to remove its electron? ⚛️ This video explains the Bohr model by deriving the ionization energy of hydrogen, connecting classical mechanics, ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

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V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

A man watches in disbelief as Austrian Airlines refunds him just $108 after a botched ticket change request. But the airline ...