For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, is 11 times wider than Earth, and has a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

NASA is getting ready to launch twin satellites for a study on the sun's energy, and a University of Iowa professor is ...

The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower occurs annually from about July 17 to Aug. 23, typically peaking in mid-August, ...

The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering ...

A study led by University of Iowa Associate Professor David Miles will study how the sun impacts the Earth’s magnetic field ...

It's not every day we get this close to the heart of our solar system and live to talk about it. But NASA just did something extraordinary. Its Parker Solar Probe has flown closer ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced its next launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral will be for a ...

The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to Hankey. However, one of the the best days to ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder will launch a 60-foot rocket out of New Mexico on Friday, which, once launched, ...

Bitcoin mining’s space race is to put a miner in space and on the moon. The idea is crazy, but Nick Moran of Intercosmic ...