The future of our solar system has long captivated both scientists and stargazers alike. As highlighted in a recent Live ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot enough ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

It doesn’t happen often that astronomers manage to find the universe in the process of creating planets. Yet, in a moment as rare as it is revelatory, a global team has directly observed the first ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

Scientists are almost sure that there is a ninth planet. But a study by Japanese astronomers hints that this might not be true. A new cosmic body called a sednoid has been discovered near the Kuiper ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...