Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

The solar system may have a ninth planet after all. This one is 5,000 times bigger than outcast Pluto and billions of miles farther away, say scientists who presented "good evidence" for a ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's mostly ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of ...