Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

Good news for those hoping to spot the upcoming alignment of seven planets this week: the skies look like they will be clear, ...

While the weather might be tough for seeing it tonight, there's a chance to see a 7-planet alignment in the skies tonight in ...

DC Comics took a page from the pulp adventure heroes of the ’30s when creating the first superhero, who themselves took a ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...