Back in 2015, NASA’s Kepler mission spotted a planet that looked remarkably close to our own, a world now known as Kepler ...

Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...

At the center of our solar system, the sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent studies, scientists ...

Found in the northern sky, GJ 3378b is a potentially rocky world with liquid water on its surface, receiving 90% of the ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Taking measurements of the same CME from different vantage points in the solar system revealed the true extent of a solar ...

Something unusual seems to be lurking at the far edge of our Solar System. Some think it could be a hidden, oversized planet.

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

A solar eclipse is a rare, visually striking phenomenon. The Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, temporarily hiding our star – a geometrical alignment spanning millions of miles. A partial solar ...

At the ripe age of five, it is clear that the United States Space Force, while dominated by old thinking, still doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up, and is split among multiple different ...

The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System with modelling suggesting it may be a water world.