Georgia's Fernbank Museum has raised about $27 million to transform existing exhibits, build new ones and add an accessible elevator and building entrances.

NASA may have just found our second Earth - a planet so similar, it could be habitable for humans. But this is just the beginning. Thanks to powerful telescopes and new detection methods ...

The exoplanet, Kepler-725c, has 10 times the mass of Earth and is located in the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-725. The discovery is published in Nature Astronomy.

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, or TTVs for short. Let's set the scene.

Astronomers have identified a colossal black hole, potentially the most massive ever detected, at the heart of the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy located 5 billion light-years from Earth.

A gas giant the size of Jupiter, yet even heavier and denser, has captured the attention of astronomers across the world.

The depths of the Earth still hold many surprises. A team of scientists has discovered that objects move horizontally in the Earth's mantle, nearly 1,864 miles (3,000 km) beneath our feet.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of the early universe that has escaped normal evolution.

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 7.59 p.m. ET (2359 GMT) on June 5, at which time it will pass 2,170,309 miles (3,492,787 kilometers) from our planet, over nine times the ...