Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

The findings could more than double our current database of worlds that loop around binary star systems. But researchers need ...

The mechanism that can cause a rapidly expanding plasma—the superhot state of matter harnessed in fusion energy systems—to ...

Venus is now shining brightly as the “Evening Star” after sunset. It will reach its highest in August and peak brightness in ...

Outside of Earth, the Universe is vast and ever-changing. Recently, there was a big discovery in our celestial backyard.

An Isro-led study found that stronger solar activity makes low Earth orbit debris lose altitude faster. The finding could ...

A ninth planet may be tugging at the outer edges of our solar system. Astronomers were studying distant icy objects beyond Neptune. In 2014, astronomers found six Kuiper Belt objects clustered in ...

Newton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 ...

While Galileo's observations killed off the old model, we would need to wait centuries for conclusive evidence that Earth ...

A nearby “super-Earth” is giving scientists a rare look at the bare surface of a distant world, and it’s far from Earth-like.

Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter, born May 6, 1872, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Groningen, developing an interest in astronomy there and furthering it with work at Cape ...

The galaxy’s most common stars rarely host sub-Neptune planets, revealing a new pattern in how close-in worlds form.