Most of us learned the basics of our solar system in school. Eight planets, one sun, some moons, a couple of asteroid belts.

After four decades of searching, solar scientists have at long last found evidence of a type of seismic wave in our Sun. Thanks to ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric ...

There is interesting new work from Cool Worlds. A quasite is a conceptual space-based satellite system proposed by the Cool Worlds Lab (led by astronomer David Kipping), representing a hybrid or ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the ...