Spokane native and NASA astronaut Anne McClain has now safely traveled to space and back, twice. McClain, a U.S Army Colonel ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system is a multi-planetary system made of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a cool red dwarf just 40 light-years from Earth. Of the seven, three planets sit in the habitable zone, the ...

This new approach, which will mix NASA assets and commercial infrastructure, would gradually replace the patchwork relay ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...

Skywatchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction saw the start of an upcoming "planet parade" in the eastern sky. Here's ...

Another comparison; the Sun is 8.3 light-minutes away, meaning whenever we look at it (not that we should!), we're viewing it ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over why Uranus seemed colder than expected. Now, an international research team led by the University of Houston has solved the mystery: Uranus emits more heat than it ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years — if it ever gets funded and ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up in August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and ...

On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...

The 3I/ATLAS, which was first spotted on July 1, has the fastest velocity of any solar system visitor to date, NASA says. The comet’s 130,000 mph speed is nearly 100 times the speed of some bullets.