Previously political moderate who has been swept Rightward by the continuing movement of the Left fringe. Update - some common sense is breaking out.

Several decades ago, we thought the solar system had nine planets. Then Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. And then astronomers realized the solar system is full of dwarf planets. Recent ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), has discovered an unusual exoplanet called GJ 3090 b that ...

Up to now, it was expected that exoplanets would all orbit in the same plane and that they would move along their orbits in the same direction as the star’s rotation as they do in the Solar System.

For those who have watched "Rick and Morty" since the beginning, do you remember the first season had an episode that "explained" why Pluto was reclassified from planet to dwarf planet? In the show's ...

Ceres is a world of subdued relief. Its charcoal-grey surface is crowded with impact scars, but between the craters much of the terrain rolls gently across the dwarf planet. Then one mountain breaks ...