The head of NASA says maybe Pluto is a planet after all. He is wrong because Pluto is part of the rest of the solar system ...

New research suggests that middle-aged stars like the Sun may offer the most stable environments for complex life to emerge.

Cirrus-like clouds have been discovered on a giant planet 12 light-years away, a finding that could change the search for ...

Right now, India holds 20 of the 25 hottest spots on the entire planet. Temperatures are breaching 44°C across multiple ...

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

When you say an event's full hot air, that's not a bad thing — especially if it's a hot air balloon festival like what we've ...

16. Despite Mercury's extreme temperatures (like, up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit), it's believed to have ice at its north and ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the aging space probe's life as it ventures nearly 16 billion ...

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

Astronomers at The University of New Mexico have published new research confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and they say the fallout could teach us about the formation of our world. The ...