Gov. Brian Sandoval today announced that he appointed Francine Lipman, a professor of law at UNLV, to the Nevada Tax Commission.

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday announced the appointment of UNLV law professor Francine Lipman to the Nevada Tax Commission, effective immediately for a term that will expire in October 2019.

Our solar system may have once been a much more crowded place than it is today.

A study has suggested at least one super-Earth sized planet may have formed in the early days of the solar system before being devoured by the sun.

When they wouldn't hire her because she was a woman, she threatened her superiors. When the media asked her a stupid question, she gave them an earful. And when she thought she had contracted HIV/AIDS, she said, "if that's what happened, that's what happened."

At least one super-Earth — a planet that is larger than Earth, but smaller than Neptune — could have formed close to the Sun, suggests a new study.

A super-Earth may have once formed close to the sun.

Findings of a new study suggest that this young super-Earth formed after clearing up the solid objects that lay between the sun and Mercury. Unfortunately, this primordial world was eventually consumed by the solar system's star after succumbing to its gravity.

Faraday Future is striving to make its 3 million-square-foot factory one that boasts energy-efficient and eco-friendly aspects.

A legacy of Las Vegas founding father Howard Hughes will flicker back to life Monday at UNLV.

Through a chandelier-lit hallway in the Paris Las Vegas, hundreds of men and women shuffled past giant standing letters spelling “UNLV” en route to the university’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality Management fundraiser, UNLVino, for the Grand Tasting on Saturday night.