On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

We’ve all heard of the world’s most massive sharks, both past and present. The megalodon, the great white shark, and the ...

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

Prosenjit Chatterjee says he, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and Ajay Devgn are all ‘producer-friendly’ actors: 'We have seen ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Climate finance is not constrained by a lack of funds—the money is there, and a bold tax justice agenda can unlock it, writes ...