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 ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpainSat Next Generation 1 (SpainSat NG-1), a communications satellite for the European Space ...

These are the planets that will be visible with the naked eye. A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the month ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show over the next week with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet visible over the next few days. The four bright ...

While a street or a building may be commonplace, our Joe has been heralded with everything from an ice cream flavor to a miniature planet. Wikipedia actually has a page devoted to the topic ...

That’s because Pluto was downgraded from a “planet” to a “dwarf planet” in 2016 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today. When you purchase through ...

Roots of Salacia crassifolia (Mart.) G. Don. (Celastraceae) (Figure 1S on supplementary material) were collected by Dr. Maria Olívia Mercadante-Simões of Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes ...

To help you understand the latter, Snapchat’s Plus subscription rolled out a new feature called Snapchat Friend Solar System, which assigns a planet to close friends of yours. In this article, we will ...