In 2006, Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet. The decision came down to one controversial rule about clearing ...

The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...

Mark your calendars for the last week of February, because one of the coolest celestial events is coming up where six planets will be visible in the night sky at the same time. This phenomenon, known ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom.

In the coming weeks, Artemis II will send humans around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Could it be a ...

Thanks to high-concept stories with significant production costs and complex logistics, sci-fi shows are often on the ...

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years away near the outer edge of the habitable zone.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - It is just one scenario among many, but by far the most cataclysmic.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity ...

The commercial providers who inked agreements with the space agency include Airbus U.S., Capella Space and Vantor.