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

Longest commercial Moon mission using Firefly’s composites-intensive Blue Ghost lander completes more than 346 hours of ...

Large and violent tornadoes have been confirmed in Mississippi, with forecasters warning of considerable damage. CNN's Derek Van Dam has the latest.

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition of a moon. But this is likely just "the tip of the iceberg," Edward Ashton, an astronomer ...

Plans to erect a solar farm which would have covered an area equivalent to 80 football pitches on green belt land have been rejected by local councillors. The 49.95MW scheme, proposed for an 156 ...

They sit in a toroidal or donut shape around the planet but the mysteries about what gives Van Allen’s belts their shape is one of the big questions still being researched today. Another big ...

Explores Earth's delicate position in space, emphasizing the importance of studying its atmosphere and the magnetosphere. It discusses the impact of solar emissions on Earth's weather, climate, and ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare ...

Altjira, also known as 2001 UQ18, is located in the outer reaches of the Solar System, 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles) away, or 44 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. “Hubble images show ...