New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan say they’ve found a mathematical limit that shuts down the ...

How special is our solar system? Is our sun unique? What about the number, arrangement, and composition of our planets – are they weird, or what astronomers expect to see? Is our planetary ...

From the largest cosmic scales down to the smallest subatomic ones, the same laws of physics define the entire Universe. The building blocks from which life arose on Earth weren't something that the ...

“I think it’s going to tie into some of the experiences you’ll see at the new Universal park that’s coming,” said Dennis Speigel, founder and CEO of International Theme Park Services. The patent ...