A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe explores the sun's mysteries, revealing new insights into solar phenomena and the solar wind.

The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

Scientists found a bizarre new planet named Enaiposha, unlike any in our solar system. Learn why it's a mystery and how it’s ...

A type Ia supernova occurs when a white dwarf draws hydrogen from a companion. But Sirius A and B are too widely separated ...

Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Researchers at Thailand’s Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated a novel hydrogel that has high ...

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Now, that dream is closer to becoming a reality thanks to the trailblazing work of researchers at Caltech, who have developed ...

NASA's live event on EZIE spacecraft launch to study aurora electrojets and prevent potential technology disruptions calls ...

Scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development. Their optical system could guide the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for ...