The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

Rising temperatures and extreme heat have led to a surge in demand for cooling. But, ironically, the more we rely on ...

This is particularly puzzling, as a vast majority of meteorites can be traced to some well-known parent body—whether that be ...

Back before the discovery of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, observers of the cosmos were only focused on the planets up to ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

While every season could feasibly invite you to start a new era, springtime presents an amplified version of that feeling.

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Scientists have discovered four tiny planets circling our second-closest star system, Barnard’s Star. The reddish ball of gas is only six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.