Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist. Professor David Jamieson, Head of ...

Every wonder what the sky looked like hundreds of years ago? Where the planets were? We know that the constellations change so slowly that even if you time-traveled King Tut out of ancient Egypt into ...

It’s hard to imagine a more eventful year for Harvard professor and astrophysicist Abraham “Avi” Loeb. He’s published a new book: “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.” ...

As the new space race continues, a team of top researchers says one thing needs to be cleared up – what exactly is a planet? In a study appearing recently in the journal Icarus, the researchers hope ...

Why is it that one always hears about the notorious trials of Galileo and the errors made by (one faction of) the Catholic Church (on a sub-magisterial, sub-infallible level) about science in the ...

A new study from the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida surveyed centuries of planet literature and found that the decision that led to Pluto’s demotion stemmed from ...

It began the way many discoveries do — a tickling of curiosity in the back of someone’s mind. That someone was astronomer and communicator Carl Sagan. The thing doing the tickling was the trajectory ...

ORLANDO, Dec. 8, 2021 – As the new space race continues, a team of top researchers says one thing needs to be cleared up – what exactly is a planet? In a study appearing recently in the journal Icarus ...