An official statement issued on Wednesday said that this length compares to roughly 10 times the size of the Milky Way’s ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

Acting on Plan Commission recommendation, the Williams Bay Village Board on Jan. 22 approved a zoning map amendment request ...

The study of exoplanets has come a long way since the first detection of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun in 1995. This groundbreaking discovery, achieved through the radial velocity (RV) ...

"Star Trek" veteran Alex Kurtzman and director Olatunde Osunsanmi talk about creating "a different color of the rainbow" for ...

Cities have always inspired filmmakers by serving as the backdrop for stories that show how people live, work, and dream.

Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these ...

Chinese New Year, AKA the Spring Festival, is a commemoration of the new lunar calendar, and is celebrated in many South ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...