An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Scientists studying dust and rock from asteroid Bennu say they are holding something close to a time capsule from before ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever so small an amount - as scientists had ...

The city is demanding about $20 million in penalties and restitution from Radiant Solar, the largest sum it has ever sought from a home improvement contractor. By Andy Newman Arthur Klein first ...

Newfoundland’s terrain tells a story of ancient glaciers and shifting stone. See how time carved this incredible place. Trump reveals a highly secretive new weapon that can topple governments Michelle ...

Since it invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russia has worked to develop countermeasures to space-based internet systems—and one such countermeasure may be on display inside Iran. The United States and its ...

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth’s, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...