Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

A rogue planet was found in Hubble data using Einstein’s microlensing; event lasted 8 hrs and no host star was detected.

With summer beginning to wane and the fall semester approaching, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is ...

August 2025 brings the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 9, a Venus-Jupiter conjunction on August 12 and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on the nights of August 11–12.