The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Earth will move between Saturn and the sun this weekend, offering prime views of Saturn in what's known as "opposition." Here's what to know.

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour. The giant asteroid will be at its closest ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how youth who commit crimes are prosecuted in the ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

It's pretty safe to say that there is no one person on this planet who is happier to see AJ Lee back in WWE than her own ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...