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, ...

Whether it’s getting in touch with different cultures, finding creative inspiration or even sinking your teeth into the history of a specific subject, museums can be intimate and interactive ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the sky this week.

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries ...