The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...