The authors came to their conclusion after first comparing images of the ice giant to measurements of its brightness, which were recorded by the Lowell Observatory in Arizona from 1950–2016 at blue ...

"We found an overdensity of planets in this region, indicating a sharp transition between the barren Neptunian Desert and the more populated Neptunian Savanna." ...

Starstruck Billions of years ago, our Solar System may have had an incredibly close encounter with another passing star. As ...

A new study suggests that the Sun may have had a close encounter with another star, explaining the unusual orbits of objects ...

Tucked away in the heart of St. Germain, Wisconsin, lies a small-town treasure that has locals buzzing. Cathy’s Ice Cream n’ Candy Shoppe serves up scoops so enormous that they’re known far beyond ...

“a hot topic of research” is how the supercooling of liquids works high up in storms and how the liquids interact with particles and dissolved particles in the cloud to form ice crystal ...

With the waning of sunlight, the pace of sea ice loss in the Arctic is slowing, and the seasonal minimum is expected in mid-September. While a new record low is highly unlikely, extent at the ...

Satellite images show a giant hole in Siberia is rapidly expanding ... They found that about 14 Pyramids of Giza's worth of ice and permafrost had thawed at Batagay. The crater's volume increases ...

The gas giant is more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined, according to NASA. Its swirling clouds are colorful due to different types of trace gases including ammonia ice ...

A multi-institutional team of historians, geologists, physicists, and archaeologists in Spain has developed a theory to explain how a neolithic culture could have built the Menga dolmen, an ...

Police in Iceland called off a search Monday for two tourists initially believed missing after the collapse of an ice cave that killed one person and seriously injured another, saying they now ...