A developing thunderstorm near Palmdale produced a weak landspout tornado Thursday afternoon, and Palmdale resident John ...

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

A study of Saturn's atmospheric structure using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed complex and mysterious features unseen before on any planet in our solar system.

In a once-a-year event, Saturn is about to reach opposition, with the ringed planet appearing its best and brightest as it ...

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...

Hayabusa2, operated by the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), is on an extended mission after successfully ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

A geomagnetic storm erupted out of a coronal hole spanning 310,000 miles across the solar surface and has enhanced in ...