India, Feb. 19 -- University of Birmingham astronomers joined a global team of scientists to discover a distant planetary system that turns scientific understanding of planet formation upside down.

On 2/18/1930, American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. We celebrate the plucky dwarf planet with a scale model replica of the solar system in Maine.

On February 20, 2026, the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah, will debut its new Sam Aline Skaggs Science Learning Center. With the addition of this 120,000 square foot facility, the ...

February 18 marks the discovery of Pluto by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. The discovery reshaped the understanding of the solar system, as Pluto was long considered ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh, key political changes in Scandinavia and America, plus cultural and scientific milestones.

An examination of earlier observations from the wide-field X-ray telescope revealed another persistent X-ray signal preceding the gamma ray burst, which is an odd order of events for high-energy ...

The discovery overturns traditional models that predicted gas giants in outer orbits and suggests planets can form in gas-poor environments.