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, ...

Dr. Peter Attia’s most recent appearance on 60 Minutes has been pulled after he was named in the latest batch of Epstein ...

Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...