Astronomers have discovered icy rocks in the outer solar system that seem to defy the laws of physics, suggesting the ...

Our Solar System is plunging into chaos. Better hang on tight. The planets are getting knocked out of orbit. What could kickstart this epic chain of events? How would this impact each and every planet ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

Normally," rings around a planet are created from the remnants of meteors, moons or left over planet pieces. But this is not ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." ...

How will defects in the material improve the capabilities of satellites and help create new flexible microelectronics devices?

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by capturing the first-ever ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...