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

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

A young and persuasive salesperson came to Grand Junction resident Brandon Keen’s home last summer selling residential ...

Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

A young and persuasive salesperson came to Grand Junction resident Brandon Keen’s home last summer selling residential ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

Scientists have determined that around 14 million years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and might have experienced increased interstellar dust, which could ...

Congress faces a choice: Preserve an outdated, opaque system riddled with inefficiency, or forge a leaner, results-driven model that actually serves those in need. The time for reform is not ...

Our sun belongs to a spiraling galaxy filled with star-forming neighborhoods. Astronomers recently found that our entire solar system traveled through a dense region in the constellation Orion about ...

We all know this, even if we choose to look away. These are not bugs in the food system; they are features of it. Our entire supply chain has been designed or evolved to make food as cheap for ...