Weird Al now has a mile-wide asteroid named after him — and the scientist behind it says his songs launched her career.

Over the past 50 years, musician “Weird Al” Yankovic has become the first artist to have a comedy album debut at #1 on the ...

A new scientific report warns that seven of the nine boundaries that regulate the stability of the planet have already been ...

The universe contains events powerful enough to destroy stars, disrupt planetary systems, and reshape entire galaxies. This ...

Atmospheric chemistry is the study of the components of planetary atmospheres, particularly that of the Earth. It specifically looks at the composition of planetary atmospheres and the reactions and ...

Analysis of anonymized banking data could help inform strategies to support victim-survivors of financial abuse — plus, how opposing forces within the Earth can alter the length of a day.

Astronomy and astrophysics professor Jonathan Fortney receives 2026 Whipple Award and ecology and evolutionary biology ...

A small world 4.5 times Earth's mass is circling its star in the wrong direction. Normally there's a bully nearby to blame.

Earth Just Failed 7 of 9 Health Checks. Use our interactive dashboard to check Earth's vital signs and learn 4 practical ways to lower your environmental footprint.

Brown welcomed 31 new faculty members to College Hill for the 2026-27 academic year. The cohort of new faculty brings a wide range of professional experiences to the classroom, from examining the ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

Ariel, one of Uranus’ moons, may once have contained a subsurface ocean more than 100 miles deep beneath its fractured icy shell. The finding, combined with similar evidence from Miranda, suggests the ...