Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...

While most of my columns over the more than 20 years that I have written them for the Kitsap Sun have dealt with serious issues -- wars, addictions, family struggles -- sometimes a lighter issue ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with atmosphere, they have a wide range of characteristics distinguishing them. But if ...

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Pluto's 2006 status change from planet to dwarf planet is still a sore subject for many, including a fourth grader in Tampa, Florida. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ...

The eastern sky will get exceptionally busy this month as Saturn, Mars, and Mercury move in and out of tight formations just before sunrise. Across several mornings, the trio will shift between a ...