On the 20th anniversary of Pluto’s infamous demotion, Mike “Pluto Killer” Brown explains why any reversal of that decision ...

Mike Brown is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his 2005 discovery of the dwarf planet Eris, which ...

Chang’e 7 was supposed to launch aboard a Long March 5 rocket on August 24, but the launch was scrubbed on Sunday evening due ...

Even as cases of diseases such as measles rise, childhood vaccinations are declining, thanks to changes in public health ...

When that energy reaches the ground, some of it is converted into seismic waves that ripple through the soil and rock beneath ...

Snapped on August 23, 1966, by the uncrewed Lunar Orbiter 1, the photo’s legacy lives on in the breathtaking images of Earth ...

During trauma, the amygdala becomes highly active, processing emotions such as fear, and the hippocampus becomes overwhelmed ...

Twisters don’t touch down in New York City often, but they can when the conditions are just right ...

The U.S. this summer has been gripped by a parasite-borne illness that causes explosive diarrhea, which has basically taken ...

Despite this object lesson right on our interplanetary doorstep, the “Earth-like” term endures. Even if we expand what we ...

In a new paper published in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists found that the area of Europe that is at risk of ...

This week New York City reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year; health officials said the infected ...