In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified one of the most Earth like planets ever discovered, Kepler 452b. It orbits ...

NASA's New Horizons found the solar wind slows as it nears interstellar space, helping improve models of the solar system's ...

Two massive planets may have once existed in early solar system before being ejected, leaving behind evidence in unusual ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are critical for life to survive on Earth.

PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar ...

A recent study is shedding light on how we handle geomagnetic storms, offering a way to reduce their severity. Solar storms occur when the sun creates an entangled mess of magnetic fields, similar to ...

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...

The planet should not have survived the star's red giant phase—which sees a star balloon to more than 100 times its original ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. When you purchase through ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...