NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has reiterated his support for Pluto to be reclassified as a planet. Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006 because it has not cleared its orbital path of ...

Could Pluto be repromoted to planetary status? On Tuesday NASA administrator Jared Isaacman told a Senate committee hearing that he is “very much in the camp of make Pluto a planet again.” NASA is ...

The long-running economics show on NPR is mining whimsical product experiments for content (and revenue) in a financially challenging environment. By Reggie Ugwu Like many anxious party hosts before ...

Step outside just after sunset and you may catch an unusual sight: six planets strung across the sky in a gentle arc. The phenomenon—often dubbed a “planetary parade”—isn’t a cosmic spectacle in the ...

This month, a rare six-planet "alignment" will be visible to stargazers. Soon after sunset on Saturday, February 28, a planetary alignment, also known as a "planet parade," will brighten up our night ...

Alarming video has captured the monster eye of Hurricane Melissa barreling towards Jamaica — as the planet’s strongest storm this year was on track to pummel the Caribbean island early Tuesday. The ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...

After studying thousands of computer simulations of the solar system, researchers at Rice University and the Planetary Science Institute think there’s a 40% chance an elusive “Planet Nine” or “Planet ...

May 2023 was kind of a big deal. A little ol’ game called The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (ring any bells?) was released, and everyone was playing it; Tears sold almost 20 million copies in ...

The Alienware 16 Area-51 delivers serious gaming performance in an excellent package, complete with a mechanical keyboard and other high-end touches. It’s competitively priced for the hardware, too.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. Subscribe to read this story ...